From: Spring Dew <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
To: "Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner" <sean@conman.org>
Subject: googling
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:19:55 -0500
> Hi honey. I was looking for Bicycle World's website, and tried to Google things like:
> * "bicycle world" florida
* "bicycle world" FL
* "bicycle world" greenacres
* "bicycle world" lake worth
Lots of Yellow Pages listings, but no results for the actual website. I finally found the site by going to
http://www.wildernessenergy.com/retail_locations_florida.html [1]
and getting the link from there.
Most of the pages on their site don't have much for keywords or description; most don't mention Florida. But if you were to link to
http://bicycleworldonline.com/page.cfm?PageID=12 [2]
do you think Google might pick up the result? That page actually has place names in it. The home page doesn't.
Working backwards, the only way I could find it was to Google for results directly from that URL. Heh.
Certainly I'll link to that page. But it's iffy if Google [3] will index the page. It depends upon the sites robots.txt [4] file, if there are any appropriate <META> [5] tags on the page, and will Google spider a site that is most likely the output from a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) program (that can have bad consequences—infinite loops, lost data, etc.).
But it can't hurt to try.
[1] http://www.wildernessenergy.com/retail_locations_florida.html
[2] http://bicycleworldonline.com/page.cfm?PageID=12
[4] http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html