Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] robots.txt disallows all spiders for mailing lists

[Noah Slater]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:41:25PM -0400, Nicodemo Alvaro wrote:
> In the very least, Savannah should make the meta keywords more
> relevant to the individual project pages.
>
> Currently everypage have these as keywords:
>
> <meta name="Keywords" content="Savannah,GNU, FSF, Free Software
> Foundation, GNU/Linux, Linux, Emacs, GCC, Unix, Free Software, Operating
> System, GNU Kernel, HURD, gnus, SourceForge" />

My professional advice is drop these meta/@keyword elements.

Popularised by Infoseek and AltaVista in 1995, in the heady days of AOL, and
later dropped between 1998 and 2000 by every single major search engine. The
reason being that they were far too easy to abuse.

Savannah is wasting 184 bytes on each response because of this element.

Best,

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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater