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missinglink
10-14-2004, 05:02 PM
restaurant search for canada only (im working on the US). let me know what you think.

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spufi
10-15-2004, 03:55 AM
Think of a big name search engine that has an intro page. You can't? Me neither. The little animated graphic could probably go too. Here's my biggest issue. What if I have no clue as to what intersection the place is and I just want to look up something like Italian food joints? Does the city option even work?
missinglink
10-15-2004, 03:22 PM
thanks for the feedback.

i hate the intro page too, but it was suggested that i put it in for search engine purposes. my search page has asp script in it that does not look good when the search engine bots crawl them. is there another way to make it look good to search engine bots? or maybee i should get rid of it anyway (i think i helped with my yahoo listing)?

i made the site with the concept that a person enters the intersection nearest to them and checks for restaurants within a certin distance. The city option is used to locate the intersection and geocode it. i would like to have the option for a person to search for all restaurants in a city but its not possible because of the way the data is given to us. what i did to compensate for no city wide search is i allowed a big search radius, so the user can input any intersection and a big search distance and effectivly search the whole city.

i would love to here any other comments or ideas you have

thanks
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spufi
10-15-2004, 11:16 PM
Your ASP code is processed before the page is displayed and thus search engines bots never really see your ASP code directly, but just the results of it. The reason your search page is so unfriendly to search engines is that it's so poorly coded. You have a Javascript before your first <html> tag. Yes, you have multiple <html> tags, which is also a no no. You could place your Javascript into a externally linked .js file and and make your page a lot easier to scan through. Same goes for adding CSS. You have all to much junk(<font> tags, non-breaking spaces, etc.) weighing down your page. All formatting should be done via CSS and then externally linked. This would clean up your page a ton. I would at least get your tags in the correct order, and then start to convert it over to a much leaner version. Pick a Doctype(see Doctype link in my sig) and then use W3C's validator to make sure your code validates. I would suggest going with a Strict Doctype because it will force you to get rid of presentational markup.
missinglink
10-16-2004, 10:12 AM
thanks for all the good tips, ill go through my page, do the changes and post back when im done(or have problems).

thanks again
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missinglink
10-16-2004, 03:51 PM
I took a look at my code, this is what I found:

- our javascript is now called up in a separate js file. Worked good, thanks.
- multiple html tags are caused by our include files. We now removed them and I only see one html tag. Thanks again.
- i'm still looking into css and doctype.

i'll let you know when i'm done.

These were great, if you got anymore tips let me know.

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96turnerri
10-16-2004, 07:21 PM
you still have JavaScript before the <html> nothing except a doctype goes before the <html>, also add

<meta http-equiv="robots" content="index,follow">

in the head

also try ordering/structuring your code,

take a look at one of my sites, http://www.turnerskitchens.co.uk/ and view source on that

Rich
dera
10-17-2004, 12:34 AM
http://chefmoz.org/cgi-bin/review.pl?ID=$id look at that a link from ur index page stuffs up