[sdiy] why does google suck SO bad for finding my parts? Yahoo is on it!

[Johannes Öberg]

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote:
> frankly, I'm fully with Google here.
>
> Where's your shop!?
>
> Even humans easily fail that Turing test you liked to set up with your
> pages!
>
> To make a long story short: if you want your page content to be found, your
> page shouldn't play hide and seek with human and electronic visitors seeking
> for information.

I second all this.

Too many people use stuff analogous to "well maybe you big city kids
only care about how a page looks but I care about the content" as some
kind of excuse for unusable content, or for just spilling whatever
currently goes thru their brain into a text file and calling that a
web site.

Bob, Rainer is giving you the hard truth.

Your totally unstructured page probably makes the search engine
believe you're a spam bot. And you shouldn't blame it.

It's not about fancy pictures or flashy colors; you're page is simply
so disorganized that it is probably useless to alot of people. I would
never have found the replacement keys page without this thread. In
fact, after going to the base url, I've failed several attempts to
find my way back to the keys page.

I would recommend you to remake the entire page, starting from a plan.
Theres a gazillion free web design tutorials out there, and they're
not all about graphics. A lot of them deal with basic content
organization.

If you don't want to learn html and css, there's converters for Word
documents that can at least make tables and lists for you.

> Bob Weigel wrote:
> However I INTENTIONALLY left it with a lot of text... because it loads quick and tells people
> what they are looking for hopefully in most cases.
> My site is simply the best in the world at doing that. TO call it 'HORRIBLE' seems strange
> Nate :-). If there is a better comprehensive site somewhere..please give me the link.

Then what's the problem? You think your page is great, google does not.

Btw, it's not about text vs. huge images, even if people had actually
had 2400 baud modems.

It's about loads of text scattered all over the place vs. giving the
page some thought and portioning the information into reasonably sized
chunks of relevant text.

> It was designed so people can get the
> information that they want in the fastest time possible.

If that is your goal, you should listen to Rainer.

No offence.

/Johannes