Brett_Tabke - 3:43 pm on Jun 29, 2000 (gmt 0)

>I guess I realize why one would do it, but I would
>think if you made a content filled site, then all
>search engines should like it.

Are you suggesting that I am suggesting that Content ain't the king? Blasphemy! lol

Excite is the original theme engine. They moved away from that a bit in 99, but the Excite spider and indexer system has been the one theme engine on the net for years. Desinging a site for Excite used to be a whole lot different.

We fine tune many of our pages to hit specific engines, that ya - that's what we used cloaking for. We put up walls throughout sites to mark territory for one engine and some for another. Worked exceptionally well for most of 97 and all of 98. 99 was a different story.

Content be the king? It is for long term site promotion and acquiring a user base - but, from what I've seen, content has little to do with search engine promotion, it is just food for the machine.