Re: [htdig] Bad search results

[Mike C. <mi...@mi...>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:22:58 -0700 (MST) Jim <li...@yg...> wrote:

> Did you check the file itself? htdig will pick up and index some terms 
> that don't appear in the rendered page (e.g. meta tags). 

There were no meta tags at all, and that reminds me of something I
forgot to say.  

Daniel, you can easily improve the results by adding meta keywords to
the html pages.  It would also help if the title of each page were
something more meaningful than "Catalog_237", "Small Animal Feeding
Tube" for example, because htdig (and most other search software) attach
much importance to the title.   If you do not have sufficient influence
over the content of the pages then you should look at tuning the
text_factor to be much significant than title_factor and
keywords_factor.



Mike
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