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 by Casey Markee

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As you might imagine we receive a LOT of email each month asking, of course, ...search engine questions! Anyway, it occurred to us that you might be interesting in peeking into our mailbag since many of us who maintain websites are also cyberspace voyeurs in our spare time. Anyway, here it is. A virtual potpourri of almost randomly selected SE questions and answers from the past 30 days.

At 09:46 AM 10/30/98 -1000, Ron wrote:


>I ran across this just now, and wondered
>(lazily) if you've ever addressed it in the
>book or the newsletters.  I have never heard
>it before, and am wondering how the major
>SE's would react if they found this in my
>sites.  Do you know??  Here it is:

>>ROBOT'S
>>ADVICE
>>********************************************
>>To keep those robots indexing your web site,
>>here is some HTML code, compliments of Gee
>>Wiz http://www.gee-wiz.com instructs the
>>search engine robots to return to your web
>>site for automatic re-indexing. Place this
>>in the <HEAD> of>your HTML code.
>><META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="15
>>days"> > <META NAME="ROBOTS"
>>CONTENT="ALL"> >
>>*****************************...

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