[Esip-discovery] time for new challenges?

jeff mcwhirter jeffmc at unavco.org
Wed Dec 19 12:13:23 EST 2012


On 12/19/12 9:52 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
>
> SEO is an extremely difficult problem, couched in Information Retrieval
> Research/theory. Most advances are wholly incremental or point solutions
> that aren't widespread as of yet.  Most of that has to do with the search
> engine companies guarding their intimate optimizations and ranking secrets
> very closely.
>

I don't think it is really an issue of traditional search engine 
optimization but rather that there often isn't a crawable site.  It 
seems like most repositories are search oriented and what pages are 
there don't have much in the way of text corpus to index.   If the pages 
and the text aren't there Google isn't going to index it.

-Jeff



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