Re: [htmltmpl] RFC: Template Tag Attributes

[Pete P. <pet...@cy...>]

Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:33:18PM -0500, Pete Prodoehl wrote:
> 
>>I've seen sites where I could read a word on a page, input it into the 
>>'site search' box, and get no results. This tells me that the word does 
>>not exist on the site (even though I can see it) or more likely that 
>>this is not really a 'site search' but perhaps a 'content search' or 
>>'article search' or whatever...
> 
> Of course, if the word is on every page on the site (a global header or
> footer) the word is useless as a search term for helping someone find
> something on the site.  Unless they are looking for everything. ;)

Well, with properly weighing, titles, <h1>, etc. being of more 
importance, this shouldn't be the case...


> There's also the rare chance that indexing the common text makes it
> harder to find content about something specific -- when that word might
> also be in the header/footer.  Ranking should take care of that, though.

Yup... ;)


> Excluding menus is also slightly helpful when common menu items might end up
> as search terms.

Yup...


> But, I would agree that in most cases it's better to index the content,
> and let the user worry about using good queries.  Anyway, how much
> common content do you want on every page on the site?

How much do *I* want on every page, or how much to the "powers that be" 
want on every page? ;)


Pete