[Web4lib] Google and meta keyword tags

[Drew, Bill]

I think I found a way around my problem.  I could use something like
"site:library.morrisville.edu/databases/ agriculture" as my search to
get the URL for the search to create my link.  I just need to put my
separate database pages into a separate directory on my web server.  I
will add a section that lists topics covered by each database.  It will
provide information to the user and allow the links to work as I want
them to.  This avoids the spider-food.

Bill Drew
drewwe at morrisville.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Scott [mailto:denials at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:54 PM
To: Drew, Bill
Cc: Thomas Dowling; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Google and meta keyword tags

Bill:

What you're trying to do would be called "spider-food" (feeding the
web crawler, get it?), and you should be warned Google penalizes the
rankings of sites that it suspects of trying to manipulate its ranking
system.