Sneaky little robots, via Gizmodo.

Greetings All,

Stumbled upon a very interesting article over at SitePoint discussing the reasoning behind pages that are specifically sited within their respective pages meta tags to not be visible to robots, but for some reason still are.

According to SitePoint, this can be for an assortment of reasons including: the placement of links to the “hidden page(s)” within other parts of the site, or key words founds in your sites description. The article goes into detail about various solutions for more accurately removing pages from search engine indexing, but recommends implementing security precautions if one truly wants a pages content to remain undisclosed.

Search engine optimization technically is the optimization of a website for higher positioning in search engine aka Google (sorry Bing) rankings. So why not refer to the source of the most relied upon search engine thus far to maximize the searchableness (new word) of our websites. Sounds like a win/win situation for everyone (except the Nets).

Google insists that a websites findability has nothing to do with any monetary exchange, (even though they do offer sponsored ads) but more with implementing the actual techniques in the proper way. They even serve up some links that may assist in doing so.

As the article ventures on, it even dares to go into the characteristics of a good SEO’r if one should decide to go this route instead of deciding not to read a little, get their hands dirty (notice the clever graphic above), and make an attempt! A very informative/interesting resource indeed, you can view the rest here.