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title tags messed up while cloaking

         

symmetry

3:24 pm on Nov 14, 2000 (gmt 0)



I pay to have ink spider my pages but when they display the links on hotbot they display my title as my url when my title tags clearly do not have that in them. When I translate the cloaked page on go, this is what I see. The <base href statement doesn't even exist on my page.
What is going on? I just want my title displayed correctly.

<html>

<head>
<title></title>
<base href="http://www.mydomain.com/" target="_top" >
</head>

<body >
</body>
</html>

<html>

<head>
<title>Low Mortgage Interest Rates</title>
<meta name="description" content="Find Low Mortgage Interest Rates from the leaders in low rates." >
<meta name="keywords" content="Low Mortgage Interest Rates" >
</head>

<body >

<h1>For Low Mortgage Interest Rates</h1>

<h2>To majority of superior American homebuyers choose the choice, expertise offered by interest rates.Locate interest rates in your area. </h2>

<h3>Licensed interest rates Mortgage Brokers</h3>

<h2>Wére <strong>the </strong>association of Mortgage for Brokers interest rates. </h2>

<h2> Find interest rates</h2>

<div align="center">

</div>

<h2>Our members plows experienced and ready to help you with all your interest rates needs. </h2>

Air

7:43 pm on Nov 14, 2000 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



A couple of questions;

Did you submit through positiontech?

Does the page you show regular visitors have a <title> on it?

I think what may have happened is that positiontech spidered the page with their spider. Since you don't have that IP in you script, they picked up the regular visitor page and not the cloaked one for submission to Inktomi.

What will be interesting is that Slurp will now come around to spider it, and that IP you probably will have in your list. So we'll have to see if the title changes when it is re-spidered after 48hrs.

symmetry

7:56 pm on Nov 14, 2000 (gmt 0)



The pages that I show the visitor have titles.
I think my problem lies in the fact that I use Frontpage 2000. I make templates out of some pages and reuse them accordingly. And somewhere I got it screwed up.

BTW- do you know if making the pages outside of the wwwroot makes a difference?

Any help is appreciated.

symmetry

7:56 pm on Nov 14, 2000 (gmt 0)



yes position tech and I did use their IP correctly.

Air

9:39 pm on Nov 14, 2000 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I would say that FP2000 is likely the reason for the two HTML pages stacked on one page. I guess it picked up the first empty title and ignored the second. I have never used FP, so I don't know how it affects the pages if they are created outside of wwwroot, but I suspect that it inserts the "Base href" automatically to keep the links from breaking when you create them outside of wwwroot.

Maybe someone with more FP2000 experience than I will be able to provide more information on why you ended up with two pages (at least tag wise there are two pages).

>yes position tech and I did use their IP correctly.
Just curious, are you saying that you added positiontech's IP to your script prior to submitting so they would get the cloaked page? Did you ask them about cloaking prior to submitting? Some in the Inktomi forum had been speculating about this, you may already have the answer.

symmetry

10:16 pm on Nov 14, 2000 (gmt 0)



well I don't want to give anybody ideas...but you can imagine!

Air

12:28 am on Nov 15, 2000 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Ok, gotcha ;)

Brett_Tabke

9:55 am on Nov 17, 2000 (gmt 0)

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Then why not take this up with Positiontech/inktomi? Isn't that part of what you are paying for? (rhetorical question)

angiolo

2:51 pm on Nov 27, 2000 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Hi!

I had a similar problem with Fast.
Fast does'nt show my title.

Another (small) searchengine) does'nt show my title:

[searchgoat.com...]

I submitted different pages to that search engine to realize what HTML code forced it not to show the title.

It was an HTML code regarding the copyright:

<!Copyright 1998-1999 Your name "www.yourdomain.com">

deleting the code the title shows.

Maybe you have a similar HTML code.

Niccolo'