From root Sat Jan 10 14:47:00 1998 Received: (from root@localhost) by jomis.Tymnet.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA11568 for inwap; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 14:47:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by shell3.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with ESMTP id OAA08008 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 14:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from geoworks.com (dynamic63.pm07.sf3d.best.com [209.24.235.191]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with ESMTP id OAA21818 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 14:33:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34B7F5B4.CEC07@geoworks.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 14:27:00 -0800 From: Matt Armstrong X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Smith and O'Halloran" Subject: Re: How to make my site "index bot friendly" References: <34B74DD9.6874D630@geoworks.com> <697qns$btu$1@shell3.ba.best.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: aad7277b87fcd8f588c254a1c7e49ea8 Status: RO Thanks for the tip! Did you develop the CGI for your cat picture page (http://www.inwap.com/inwap/cats/index.html), or is it something generally available? It puts my cat page to shame. :-) Smith and O'Halloran wrote: > In article <34B74DD9.6874D630@geoworks.com>, > Matt Armstrong wrote: > >I suspect the bots aren't following the links > >because they do not contain text, but rather images. e.g. > > If you look at a lot of professional web sites, you will notice that > for every image link on the page, there is also a text link. These > are often at the bottom of the page, with . > > I recommend always having some clickable text for each clickable link. > http://www.inwap.com/inwap/index.html for example. > -Joe