Search referrals

Ceaser+Rodney

[wilderness]

I'm getting plenty of referals which I'm sure are not intended for my site because that name exists on a page.

Anybody have any thoughts how I might limit these referals in htacess?
TIA

[jdMorgan]

wilderness,

Have you got a raw log sample of these accesses we can look at?

Jim

[wilderness]

Jim,
When this traffic started I did a search and found that besides an elementary school being named the same that the school was named after a siginificant person in the Revolutionary War.
Neither of those topics are of my interest.

There was a famous horse named Rodney who had a son named Ceaser Rodney.
The IP does not matter. These searches come from most any browser.

xxx.xx.xx.xxx - - [05/Dec/2002:17:17:54 -0800] "GET /publct/rodney.html HTTP/1.1" 200 16291 "http://search.dogpile.com/texis/search?q=Ceaser+Rodney&format=clone&brand=dogpile&attrib=rs&top=1" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

I was catching up on other Webmaster World threads the other day and saw mention of the impossibilty of working for a glass company and not trying to gather vsitors for Windows."

It may be a whole lot less inconveinence if I just change the name to fiction? Or perhaps misspell it?

[wilderness]

Please disregard.
I believe I've found a very simple solution.

The actual reference is to "Ceaser" (correct spelling of the Revoltionary reference.)

I'll just change the spelling to "Caesar."

Course it will take a month or two to clear the SERPS however short a few very knowledgable horse folks, I don't believe anybody will notice.

[jdMorgan]

wilderness,

An interesting problem. I get some "off-base" visitors too, sometimes. I often wonder, "Why did they click-through on my link when the description makes it fairly obvious that my site is not wht they wanted?" I just assume that they found my desctiption interesting on it's own merits, and I eventually quit worrying about it.

The popularity of the Windows OS must indeed be a nightmare for the glass-installing industry! I'd hate to be doing SEO for a glazier!

Jim

[wilderness]

Jim,
Nearly all of my pages have individual description tags.
This one no different.

"<title>Rodney 1:57 2/5</title>
<meta name="description"
content="1948 Horse of the Year. Retired as the leading trotting stallion after the 1949 season">"

Perhaps the visitors are under the impression that they are going to read something truly unique to the Revolutionalry hero from the 1700's :-)
In that instance I should accept it a a compliment ;-)

The pedigree blood of Rodney was at its peak in the early 80's. Today the blood is enough generations back to reduce that consideration in breeding.

In either event I've changed the spelling.
Thanks again
Don