Ratz File : 05/09/jwi – along came a spider
Continuing my works on John W. Ishii’s website, I began to encounter the world of algorithms (basically math), text and robots. Many a time I guess you will hear technical people talk about META TAGS, KEYWORDS, SEO, LINK SATURATION and stuff that might boggle the mind. Actually, I am BOGGLED. What the hell are those things? A layman would most probably gawk at a sample code illustrated below;
“<title><?php t0l19r24_title( ‘-’, true, ‘right’ ); echo t0l19r24_specialchars( get_bloginfo(’name’), 1 ); ?></title><meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”<?php bloginfo(’html_type’) ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo(’charset’) ?>” /> <meta name=”description” content=”John W. Ishii <?php bloginfo(’description’) ?>” /><?php if(is_search()) { ?><meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow” /><?php }?>”
The internet has since progressed from it’s infancy days of just using one or two very straight forward methods for inclusion into their search engines. This time round they have started to use ALGORITHMS to decipher your website, with SITEMAPS, WEBSITE VERIFICATION, ANALYSTICS, etc …. sheesh … couldn’t someone just come out with a simpler system of getting things done?
And this META thing for the ROBOTS…. or SPIDERS …. it seems to me that its becoming something like this …..
ALGORITHMS, ALGORITHMS again … I finally get to meet the online SPIDERS (or Robots) up close and personal!! Argh!! What’s all the fuss about asking the spider to FOLLOW or NOT TO FOLLOW. In fact, it looks to us that the spider normally does not do as it’s told!! Ha ha ha ha …… Good luck to us…. and now let the FIGHT BEGIN!!! Coding begins again …..
