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The Bicycling Guitarist
12-26-2004, 04:18 PM
Problem is some search engines grab my bread crumb trails or nav bar link
and use those for their descriptions of my site's pages. These nav features
are at the top of the XHTML content inside the <body>. Maybe if I move the
code for the navigation links moved to the bottom of the source code for the
page I'd get better descriptions in the pages that are listed? I'd like the
navigation features to still display visually at the top of the browser
window though.

I'm looking at positioning tutorials various places but I'm still confused
and the w3c site is all greek to me except for the validators that I use
regularly.

My site is http://www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/ Most of the pages have the
nav features described. Let's take
http://www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/cats/index.htm as a specific example of
the current source code.
John Bokma
12-26-2004, 04:18 PM
The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:

> Problem is some search engines grab my bread crumb trails or nav bar
> link and use those for their descriptions of my site's pages.

Example? Since I see that you use description(s). (meta).

> These
> nav features are at the top of the XHTML content inside the <body>.
> Maybe if I move the code for the navigation links moved to the bottom
> of the source code for the page I'd get better descriptions in the
> pages that are listed? I'd like the navigation features to still
> display visually at the top of the browser window though.

With Google the best matching piece of content is used, so if the nav part
has the best match, it will still be used.

> My site is http://www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/ Most of the pages
> have the nav features described. Let's take
> http://www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/cats/index.htm as a specific

No need to specify index.htm since that's the default. Don't refer to
index.htm in your links, use ./ instead.

(e.g. ../ranchero/index.htm => ../ranchero/, or since ranchero is at the
top level, just /ranchero/ )

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The Bicycling Guitarist
12-26-2004, 04:18 PM
"John Bokma" <postmaster@castleamber.com> wrote in message
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> The Bicycling Guitarist wrote:
>
>> Problem is some search engines grab my bread crumb trails or nav bar
>> link and use those for their descriptions of my site's pages.
>
> Example? Since I see that you use description(s). (meta).
>
>
> With Google the best matching piece of content is used, so if the nav part
> has the best match, it will still be used.
>
Bummer. Google is the one I was thinking of specifically.

> No need to specify index.htm since that's the default. Don't refer to
> index.htm in your links, use ./ instead.
>
> (e.g. ../ranchero/index.htm => ../ranchero/, or since ranchero is at the
> top level, just /ranchero/ )
>
Okay. Thanks John. You saved me a bunch of unnecessary work.