If you put "cheap prescription drugs" (or offers of even less politically correct services) in the meta line, you might help yourself rank high in google ;)
To return to the original bibliography question, I wonder if there might not be something that could be generalised from Roy Liuzza's work on the Old English Newsletter bibliography http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/login.php. It is coded using PHP and MySQL, I believe, and takes into account bibliographic standards. He is writing a piece for us on the bibliography, though its publication has been pushed back an issue due to Katrina.
If that system could be made standard, it might be very attractive to many people. ProCite, though a very good program for its day, has lousy customer support and has been more or less abandoned by Thompson, as far as I can tell.
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 16:00 -0700, Al Magary wrote:
James Cummings wrote:
- By far the easiest is to make your HTML attractive to a third-party
search engine, and allow google to search and index it...Of course this isn't flawless. Google follows particular rules when indexing pages.
Sounds terrific to this editor! I've got a biblically sized edition in progress (Hall's Chronicle, 1550--about 700,000 words of Hall's text plus quite a lot of notes. Quite frankly, if this is ever to be put up on the web in my or anyone else's lifetime, I need to rely on tools like Google.
I see that Google posts "Guidelines for Webmasters" at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html They seem very oriented toward those who run commercial sites. Are these guidelines adequate for making the kind of material that medievalists create attractive to a search engine like Google? Are there some that scholars would emphasize and others than Google doesn't post?
BTW is it true that Google only index the top n% or K of a file?
Cheers, Al Magary
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