From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 22: 0:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07F237B41F for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g3R50W805051; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:00:31 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: John Andersen Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: OT: web, google, *.shtml question Message-ID: <20020426220031.A5021@tao.thought.org> References: <200204261923.g3QJNcL03647@tao.thought.org> <200204270438.g3R4cFO22311@pen.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200204270438.g3R4cFO22311@pen.homeip.net>; from jsa@pen.homeip.net on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:38:14PM -0800 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:38:14PM -0800, John Andersen wrote: > On Friday 26 April 2002 11:23 am, you wrote: > > Ten or 12 days ago I renamed several *html file to *.shtml > > and added counters. Since then, neither Google nor any > > other search engine has found my newly named files. > > > > I could fix this (maybe!) by having *.html symlinks to > > my *.shtml files. Anyone know of a better way? > > > > thanks much, > > > > gary > > Its not too late to undo that and use the xbithack instead..... > > But google indexes pages based on the number of links > to that page from other sites, so unless you have people > linking it might never find them. > It's already fixed thanks to a thoughtful off-line clue. I don't know about the google links, but by sheer chance, found one of my pieces in the top 5 (now about 7) by searching on "granite face".... -g -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message