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nigelparry.net
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Dec 1, 2003, 9:30 AM
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Support for NOINDEX tags?
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On some sites, you have text navigation that contains words that appear on every page. When you search for these words, you get every page.
In HTML, there is a tag -- NOINDEX -- that you can enclose text with that ensures this repetitive text does not get indexed by search engines and skew results.
Does Search Engine support this tag? In my testing it would seem not to.
Thanks,
Nigel
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(This post was edited by nigelparry.net on Dec 1, 2003, 9:32 AM)
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Donna
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Dec 1, 2003, 11:59 AM
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Re: [nigelparry.net] Support for NOINDEX tags?
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Hi Nigel,
Thanks for your post. :)
The "NOINDEX" tag actually isn't valid HTML -- I believe that it was originally created for use with the ATOMZ search engine, based on the NOINDEX meta tag that some spidering search engines would read to know not to index an entire page. However, this is a proprietary tag, and not something that Search Engine supports.
That said, you can add various terms to the ignore list so that users couldn't search on those particular terms. I can also see how it could be useful to have a section of code that would be ignored on each page, so I'll add that to our requested features list. :)
Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. :)
Donna
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Dec 1, 2003, 3:24 PM
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Re: [Donna] Support for NOINDEX tags?
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Donna,
You're absolutely right about the NOINDEX thing. I've been mixing up my Atomz with my Hypertext. Thanks for adding it to the feature list.
The specific implementation we're talking about is being used for an online Bible search. On every page you have the list of the 66 books in the Bible. If I were to exclude all these titles, we'd then develop a new problem in that if someone searched for say Matthew and fisherman, you'd get fishermen-only results returned as he shares a name with one of the books. :-)
The Search Engine software is pretty good after using it for the first time. As with all Interactive Tools software, it's easy to use, create sub categories to search, etc.
However, one issue is that it appears (am I correct?) to be searching live, meaning that it's looking in a few thousand files manually each query.
Most client-end search engine solutions build indexes, which speeds up the search process and avoids server strain. Having the software create an index and enabling scheduled indexing (eg. daily at noon, etc) would be a useful addition to the features of this engine.
As it is, if it is indeed live searching all documents, it would not suitable for larger or high traffic sites, or sites that are both.
Nigel
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Eric
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Dec 1, 2003, 4:37 PM
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Hi Nigel,
Thank you for the forum post. :)
Nigel, you are absolutely correct. Search Engine has a recommended maximum of 500 pages. If your site has thousands of pages, then you will need a more powerful search engine. Otherwise interactivetools.com's Search Engine will handle your website's needs.
If you have any other questions please let me know. :)
Cheers,
Eric Lau - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com
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