Re: Problems of a Lotus Notes site

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Re: Problems of a Lotus Notes site

From Rob Impey on 25 Oct '99
replying to Re: Problems of a Lotus Notes site posted by David A

>>Our site has been developed in Lotus Notes, using Javascript to dynamically generate the navigation links. As a result, the Search Engine rankings are either non existent or very poor. I have looked at the coding in Lotus Notes, and changed what I can. Is there a simple solution I have missed or do I need to do a complete overhaul?
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>I assume your submitting the page http://www.proximity.co.uk/pxsite.nsf. The first problem is that the page has zero content, search engines like content. Second the meta refresh tag can cause problems with some SEs. Third your interior pages are framed and SEs will have a hard time spidering these pages.
>Most people with framed sites concentrate on having a SE friendly intro page to compensate, your intro page is very SE unfriendly. Hope this helps.

Thanks for your help. I am looking at changing the intro page, once I can speak to the developer behind the site's coding.

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>>>Our site has been developed in Lotus Notes, using Javascript to dynamically generate the navigation links. As a result, the Search Engine rankings are either non existent or very poor. I have looked at the coding in Lotus Notes, and changed what I can. Is there a simple solution I have missed or do I need to do a complete overhaul? >> >>I assume your submitting the page http://www.proximity.co.uk/pxsite.nsf. The first problem is that the page has zero content, search engines like content. Second the meta refresh tag can cause problems with some SEs. Third your interior pages are framed and SEs will have a hard time spidering these pages. >>Most people with framed sites concentrate on having a SE friendly intro page to compensate, your intro page is very SE unfriendly. Hope this helps. > >Thanks for your help. I am looking at changing the intro page, once I can speak to the developer behind the site's coding.