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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=dominic@brahms.demon.co.uk
href="mailto:dominic@brahms.demon.co.uk">Dominic Beesley</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=tom@siliconbunny.com
href="mailto:tom@siliconbunny.com">Tom Kranz</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:51 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [BBC-Micro] 3.5' Drives (Again..)</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry I missed Jonathan's original post (due to
Demon being absolutely rubbish and losing all last nights emails!)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jonathan,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd run all your pages through a decent HTML
validator (try HTML Tidy or JS View plugins for Firefox - the page under
question has a lot), sites like Google push you down the results list if there
are more than a couple of HTML errors.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When you've done that try making an submitting a
Google sitemap, this will also tend to improve your ranking</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dom</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=tom@siliconbunny.com href="mailto:tom@siliconbunny.com">Tom Kranz</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bbc-micro@lists.cloud9.co.uk
href="mailto:bbc-micro@lists.cloud9.co.uk">xx BBC micro mailing list</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:34
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [BBC-Micro] 3.5' Drives
(Again..)</DIV>
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<DIV>On 13 Sep 2007, at 01:03, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><A
href="http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/BBC/Disk">http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/BBC/Disk</A></DIV>
<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">What I am doing with my website that results in
people not finding</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">this information? What search terms did you use?
What search</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">engine did you use?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Jumping in here - I don't know why your site performs so poorly in search
results, as it's full of useful information, but seldom ranks highly on
Google.</DIV>
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<DIV>Using the following search terms:</DIV>
<DIV>3.5 bbc floppy</DIV>
<DIV>3.5 bbc disk</DIV>
<DIV>3.5 bbc drive</DIV>
<DIV>connect 3.5" bbc drive</DIV>
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<DIV>And your page isn't in the first 5 pages of Google results - most people
tend to give up after 5 pages and try a new search term. Sprow's HowTo page,
which does have information on how to connect up a 3.5" drive, tends to appear
fairly high up on the first pages of results, at least for the last two search
terms.</DIV>
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<DIV>I think that the problem is:</DIV>
<DIV>a) not enough sites linking in to yours - therefore search engines don't
treat it as authoritative</DIV>
<DIV>b) the way the text is written on the page doesn't give enough keyword
density to flag these common search terms in the engines</DIV>
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<DIV>Unless I specifically add 'mdfs' to any search terms it's very hard to
find any of your relevant pages in the engine indexes. You can check the
keyword density here: <A
href="http://oyoy.eu/page/keywords/?url=http%3a%2f%2fmdfs.net%2fDocs%2fComp%2fBBC%2fDisk">http://oyoy.eu/page/keywords/?url=http%3a%2f%2fmdfs.net%2fDocs%2fComp%2fBBC%2fDisk</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV>
<DIV>(that site has many very useful tools to work out how your site is viewed
by search engines, and thus how to improve search ranking)</DIV>
<DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV>
<DIV>If you go to Google and do a "link: <A
href="http://mdfs.net">http://mdfs.net</A>" it will tell you which sites have
incoming links - there aren't very many, and none of them link in to your
above listed page. This all means that Google assigns your page a page rank of
0 - it's not rating as being authoritative or relevant in the
index. </DIV>
<DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV>
<DIV>Maybe the list needs a monthly "FAQs and Read These Sites First" sort of
posting to remind people of the good resources that are out there.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV>TOM</DIV><BR>
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thing."</DIV>
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to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after
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