What is Digg?33 Comments
- DrIce926, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I thought it was stupid to submit a page directly to Google and instead just let them find you naturally.
Still, good tips in general if you expect to be "found" anytime soon. =) - quick5pnt0cobra, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11People still submit their sites to google? I assumed everyone just let google find them.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"Submit" is a strong word. A lot of sites have Google Sitemaps available that lets them find all the pages on your site. Google also offers ways to "ping" them when you change things around. Very handy if you want Google to index your site correctly.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/ - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@dested: Spiders can't see if your content is dynamic or not. One heuristic used by Google is to check the URL. If the URL looks like view.php?id=1313 Google assumes it's dynamic. What happens next is that Google just checks that page less often for changes in order not to overload your server. Dynamic content causes quite a load on the server as can be seen from the digg/slashdot effect that often takes place.
The solution is: make your URLs look like they are static pages. With the Apache HTTP server you can probably use mod_rewrite. You make a rule that rewrites a nice URL to the above URL *internally*. So when the Googlebot (and visitors) request, for example, my-latest-visit-to-mexico-1313.html the webserver returns the content for view.php?id=1313. The rule captures the number in front of .html and uses it as the value of the id.
It's imporant to use an internal redirect and not a 301 redirect, because that sends the bot to the new location while an internal redirect makes the content of view.php appear on a URL that looks static. - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Funny; my site languished for weeks and no visit from the google spider. I submitted it and wham... insta-trafic. So, don't be so hasty to judge.
- foamcow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Submitting to Google does no harm.
There's not much point if you have links from already indexed sites though.
alt tag? hmmm no. alt attribute.
OK, it's semantics. But stuff like that just questions whether the writer knows stuff through experience or has just 'read it somewhere'.
Oh, and although I wouldn't ever recommend a flash splash page, or any splash page, Google can follow links within flash content and has been doing so for quite some time.
Old and ill informed. - foamcow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I often find myself having to talk clients out of having a splash page.
But yes, so 1999 - einsteindesign, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4FTA: "#1...if you have a splash page..."
Is it 1999 already? Who the hell uses splash pages these days? - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2str3ama - nice story but it's wrong for several reasons. One is that Google can only see if a page is dynamic if you give hints like the URL has a ?. Furthermore, nothing stops a spammer from creating with a Perl script (for example) thousands of static pages. Web space is cheap nowadays.
Finally, if you could spam easier (you can't) with a ? in the URL a lot of sites would be doing just that. One of the first things people who understand SEO advice is to use mod_rewrite to get rid of dynamic looking URLs
And of course they care about your server because if the server is slowed down by crawling, it means that their spider is slowed down as well. If the server goes off line the spider gets errors back and has to reschedule. - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Submitting is not needed when one has one or more inbound links.
I do ping my blog via a Perl script though: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ping-blog-via-xml-rpc.html which is submitting. - str3ama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2they're problem with dynamic pages isn't about your server load (they don't care about that). There problem is that people good spam google with multiple pages of the same or altered content with dynamic pages - you could have one php file that executes the same page showing up as different results - so this.php?me=you indexed, and then this.php?me=youandyou show up as different results.
Google is struck because they don't know how to handle this, they don't know how to differentiate ?me=you from ?me=you+1 . Spammers can take advantage and use that to index millions of pages that are the same or similar, so that's why they aren't allowing dynamic indexing as much. I think it's a stupid move on their part, as there are some people who are not SEO and don't know to do this and therefore the dark or invisible web grows (notice that those dynamic pages do get indexed for larger sites, but in some cases their supplemental results) - canadianguy33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's not that it is stupid to submit to Google, it's just that you probably don't have a hope in hell of getting good rankings if you think that submitting to Google will do you any good.
This article is rubbish because of the fact that it's based around an utterly useless means of getting some G love. - aldomatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good Tips but as stated above, out dated but noobs can really learn from this.
- CAPSLOCKISCOOL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"... Danny Sullivan on [url=http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/frames.html>Search Engines and Frames[/url]..."
what happened to "check for broken links"? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"10. To cache or not to cache?
Google caches some webpages for quick access, but some webmasters do not like that. The procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is write a line of code between your HEAD tags.
META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE" - should be enough to stop all robots from caching and archiving the page where the code is embedded. "
Now people know saying "DO NOT ARCHIVE THIS PLZ OR I WILL SUE UUUU" does not stop crawlers... - fotbr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Quite a few companies still do.
- koweja, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Companies that haven't updated their web site design since 1999, for starters.
- Goosh2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Most of these tips are old or out of date. Ok, most of them suit someone with very basic SEO knowledge, but still :s
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Dupe from 56 days ago. Same article, different blog.
http://digg.com/tech_news/10_things_you_should_know_before_submitting_your_website_to_Google
Digg will eat itself... - MaximegalonInfo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Presumably the webmaster would make the submission to Google. If any of these items are not obvious to said webmaster, then they should find another job.
- VizualConcept, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Its good to get backlink from a high rank page and google will find you much quicker, if you get a backlink from a page that is PageRank7 or higher your website will be posted in 24 hours.
- metallikop, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Self promotion, buried.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4got it http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/10_things_to_know_before_submitting_to_Google/
- pizpot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2you should get this info from the google support pages actually. rather than this hope for links.
- Boghiu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I see it fixed now.
- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I think its time for google to rethink its stance on dynamic content (if this article is correct). As a web developer I try and make as much content as I can dynamic, and I don't see why google wouldn't treat it the same.
- Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1FTA
"...but you'll be surprised to find out how many errors is the Google crawler experiencing daily due broken links."
Broken links! What about broken english! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Submitting to Google is stupid. It is like trying to get popular at school by wearing a shirt that says "hey, im popular".
on the otherhand, submitting to Digg to get into Google - that's another thing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Would you like to touch my Wii?
- eljay, on 10/12/2007, -4/+111. Get a better server.
- andymc1989, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0#1. Ensure your site has decent bandwidth.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1try googling for how this happend
- pumpedvideo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1submit to Google? How many digg did you buy? No way people digg for this non sense
Digg is coming to a city (and computer) near you! Check out all the details on our 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is