Thursday 13th March 2003
Stumble Over Here, Please
I did a bit of changing around links on gravitystorm last weekend, for two reasons. Firstly, I had read an article from the W3C recently, talking about trying to keep urls permanent, and removing links that show the mechanisms of the webserver. So I changed all the weblog archives so that it no longer mentions php anywhere, but with still keeping the same database backend and not having prolific numbers of html files everywhere. As a completely unexpected benefit (cough cough), Google now crawls all the weblog articles (it puts a heavy penalty on what it reckons is ‘dynamic’ pages; it uses question marks in the url as a main indicator of such pages), so I’ve managed to increase the noise ratio on the google results in one fell swoop. I’d give you some of the examples of what people are looking for, which is often quite funny ("I need sex Tooting" being one of them), but I’ll need to wait till I go home for that. And I don’t think that I’ll have much change of doing that over the weekend, since I’m rather busy with DramSoc stuff.