Comments on: Crawling Dead Ends http://feddy.ca/2008/04/crawling-dead-ends/ Me, rediscovered Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:24:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jon Fedyk http://feddy.ca/2008/04/crawling-dead-ends/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Jon Fedyk Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:24:05 +0000 http://feddy.ca/2008/04/crawling-dead-ends/#comment-43 I don't see your point Joe. How will crawling new pages as a result of filling out web forms cause web rank to drop, especially considering the following from Google's announcement? <blockquote>The web pages we discover in our enhanced crawl do not come at the expense of regular web pages that are already part of the crawl, so this change doesn't reduce PageRank for your other pages.</blockquote> What do forums have to do with crawling through web forms? Most forums are very accessible to search engines without using a web form, that is why you see plenty of forum results in searches. The real issue is creating sites that works for people and are findable by search engines. Google doesn't need to find content through web forms if sites are designed right. Spending time wondering what Google is conspiring against your site is wasted, they don't have time to single any site out unless you break the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769" rel="nofollow">webmaster guidelines</a>. I don’t see your point Joe. How will crawling new pages as a result of filling out web forms cause web rank to drop, especially considering the following from Google’s announcement?

The web pages we discover in our enhanced crawl do not come at the expense of regular web pages that are already part of the crawl, so this change doesn’t reduce PageRank for your other pages.

What do forums have to do with crawling through web forms? Most forums are very accessible to search engines without using a web form, that is why you see plenty of forum results in searches.

The real issue is creating sites that works for people and are findable by search engines. Google doesn’t need to find content through web forms if sites are designed right. Spending time wondering what Google is conspiring against your site is wasted, they don’t have time to single any site out unless you break the webmaster guidelines.

]]> By: Joe Pest Control http://feddy.ca/2008/04/crawling-dead-ends/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Joe Pest Control Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:14:55 +0000 http://feddy.ca/2008/04/crawling-dead-ends/#comment-42 It seems to me that Google may use this to bring a site ranking down as well as up. Further, how will this stop people from spamming forums? It may encourage it, or encourage the creation of bots to spam forums for you. I am still confused about this since I see forum results in google searches already. -Joe <a href="http://pestprojoe.com" rel="nofollow">Do-It-Yourself Pest Control </a> It seems to me that Google may use this to bring a site ranking down as well as up. Further, how will this stop people from spamming forums? It may encourage it, or encourage the creation of bots to spam forums for you.

I am still confused about this since I see forum results in google searches already.

-Joe
Do-It-Yourself Pest Control

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