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While you're there (nothing like pushing it!), what's the difference between Agent Name delivery and IP Address Cloaking? Again, I understand the problems with cloaking, but I don;t know thw difference between these two.
(Think a donation will defnitely have to be in order after this one!) Thanx.
JamJar, here's a basic on the concept from someone who doesn't cloak. :)
The Agent Name refers to the spider names, such as Googlebot (Google), and Mercator and Scooter (AltaVista). IP delivery refers to using the IP numbers from which the Agents are originating, which is, according to my understanding, more accurate and reliable, as well as more exacting to keep up with.
>I understand the problems with cloaking
From my vantage point, the problem with cloaking is that of diligently keeping up with IP numbers, which is why I don't cloak. Also, the sites I work with are not generally not competitive enough to warrant the extra effort and expense on the part of the clients; they can be worked with very well without it, generally.
I do, however, understand why it's often necessary to cloak. I had my first little personal homepage "stolen" including the font style and color, not to mention some nicely ranking sites afterwards. Why anyone would want "Welcome to my little corner of the web" is beyond me, but with commercial sites it's a little more understandable.
There is, however, some cloaking software available for which regular IP number updates are available, as well as an agent delivery program which I understand is very effective nevertheless.
(edited by: Marcia at 9:15 am (gmt) on Sep. 24, 2001
doorway= stand alone page created to please a SE to gain high rankings
doorway websites = as above but all linked
gateway = another name for doorway I think :)
no wonder I was getting so confused.....I've been trying to find out the difference for ages!
I see a "gateway page" as a sort of a site map or table of contents page for search engine spiders or site visitors to navigate and find what they're looking for.
A doorway page, to me, is any page that's dedicated to a very specific topic or subject, an entry point to a site for anyone looking for something very specific, which is generally what search-savvy people do. An ideal gateway page would point to all the doorway pages, good for spidering and most helpful to site visitors.
Example: Say I'm looking for meat recipes. A good gateway page would be optimized for "meat recipes," from which I could navigate to the specifics. If I'm looking for chicken, beef, lamb, veal or pork recipes, or even sausage recipes, that gateway page will point me to them all. Hopefully, someone will have optimized individual pages so that I can find the specifics.
I basically look at optimization as first and foremost optimizing for the person doing a search to be able to find what they're looking for. I really believe that optimizing for the searcher will result in search engine rankings that will draw targeted traffic.
If there are sausage recipes and I'm looking specifically for bangers and mash, most likely a doorway site strictly dedicated to either sausage recipes or UK culinary quirkiness would be helpful. It's all in targeting.
I see a doorway domain as a totally separate web site, on a different domain, targeted toward a specific set of related search terms. There may be individual doorway pages on the doorway domain, but they'd be related to each other and closely themed, and linked to the larger, broader-based site.
That's just my understanding and definitions. Others, of course, may define them differently.
Regards
Kim
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(edited by: Marcia at 6:47 pm (gmt) on Sep. 24, 2001
Sorry for snipping your signature, but it is against WmW policy to allow URL drops.
Regarding your question:
I believe Marcia is referring to when someone visits your website and notices that you are receiving good rankings or otherwise and decides to view your source and pretty much take it upon themselves to "borrow" it.
Stealing!
The gal just grabbed the code from the first page and put it on hers that time. I guess she must have really liked it. If so, she would have been the only one. It said something like "Welcome to my little corner of the web."
Searched on with quotes, there are 1,840 occurrences of that line listed at Google. But they do not all have a pink background the color of Pepto Bismol, and purple Tabitha font like my first homepage had.
It was so atrocious that they gave me a super-site award when I changed it. I think it's because they were so grateful to see it finally get dumped. However, I just looked and it still says "welcome to my little corner of the web."
Maybe it's time for a redesign. It's a gateway to *nothing* :)
Kim
