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

[BrightBoy]

>> 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'd recommend getting a hold of this excellent book ("Don't Make Me Think")
on website usability which my wife recommends to all her web coding students:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321344758/ref=nosim/advancedcommonse

I think it encompasses what everyone has been pointing out.

There's a sample chapter here:

http://www.sensible.com/chapter.html

Jeff