Web linking and Audifans help WAS: Windshield cards and etiquette

[SuffolkD at aol.com]

Brett, sorry for having fun at your expense, but this post subject has 
NOTHING to do with the excellent info you reference to, which someday I may just 
look up and do some suggestions...................................
Flexiblitiy works............  -Scott by BOSTON

> From: Brett Dikeman <>
> Subject: Re: Windshield cards and etiquette
> To: audi at humanspeakers.com, Kneale Brownson <knotnook at traverse.com>
> At 11:34 PM -0400 7/25/04, Huw Powell wrote:
> 
> >even after page 3, all I am getting are random geocities indivdual 
> >sites and various audi clubs.
> >
> >So there is obviously something wrong with audifans.com search 
> >engine profile.  Can't help that there are no keywords on the site 
> >files, but still!  Surely linkage to the site has not dropped so 
> >much as to make it invisible?  Heck, I found audifans.net and still 
> >haven't found audifans.com.....
> 
> The best way for listers to help with this is to list Audifans on 
> their homepage; we actually have a huge number of links to lister's 
> homepages, and I think a good number of them return the favor, 
> although I don't think anyone has gotten quite bored enough to figure 
> out how many :-)  If you'd like to do this, point the link from your 
> homepage to http://www.audifans.com
> 
> You can do the same in web forum signature files (won't do any good 
> for posts here).
> 
> Google works in part by counting(roughly) how many people link to a 
> particular site.  The source for determining what keywords to 
> associate with a particular URL is influenced by what keywords are 
> used in the link itself. SNIPPED
> 
> http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere
> 
> (incidentally, that Tips section has lots of good stuff, and I 
> -highly- recommend it to anyone that would like to spend just a few 
> minutes sprucing up their homepage or whatnot).  The tips are 
> developed similarly to RFC's; the community mulls them over for a 
> while, makes suggestions, etc until mostly everyone is happy.  The 
> W3C also has complete references for the HTML standards, including 
> tips on using newer features in HTML which many people may not be 
> aware of...and lastly, they have an HTML validator to make sure your 
> HTML is correct.
>