Friday, August 31, 2007

Wayback Links to DANTES Subject Standardized Tests DSST

One thing search engines really like to see is external links to a page. In general, the more people link to a page, the more weight the search engine assigns to the significance of that page.

Now unfortuntely one of the great under-used resources on the web -- The Internet Archive Wayback Machine isn't readily accessible by most search engines.

The archive is stored in a database, and pages are generated on demand by a CGI program. In order to make these links available to 'bots you have to look the page up and copy the user-friendly URLs to a page they can see.

For example look at this output for Index - Credit by Examination - DANTES:

Main Page Links:

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