Query this
For anyone out there still claiming that query string style URIs—the sort with a ? and such in them—don’t do well when it comes to search engines and the seriously in-objective of optimizing sites for said engines, please point them to the following (subject to change without notice, of course):
Google: word count php!
As of this moment my source script for one of my plugins is at #3, after the official PHP site and WORDCOUNT, neither of which I should ever (never) come before. Ok, so that’s one piece of the anecdotal pie. Got one of your own?
Oh, and if it’s not clear: Me rule.
Little note from the immediate future on these Google-istics: Seems if you’re Vietnamese and searching on the terms view file source php, I am your number 1 resource, but for the plain old English-speaking world I may be in the top 10, but can’t seem to capture that penultimate spot. However, if you’re looking for a php word counter, I’m damn near the top. I’ve said that search engines are getting smarter, and I stand by that. Problem is, with increased intelligence comes the opportunity for all forms of insanity to creep in.
Author: Kaf Oseo
Categories: Internetology · szub-Limn
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’tis interesting. i don’t really understand the argument against query string style URIs, after all that is how the code comes out. the only valid argument is perhaps the aesthetic one, but i like the QSSURI effect.
Nick, it’s what you might call a technological knowledge holdover. If we were to slip back in time to around 1996 (yes Mr. Hawking, I know it’s not possible), we would find most major search engines using as part of their indexing toolkit the content of urls for aid in calculating relevancy to queries. Thing is, search engines have gotten a great deal smarter since then, at least the ones you and I use, and they don’t need to rely all that much on elements like page titles, meta information, or what you name a document. These still count to a degree, but that degree is getting lower every day.
You rule! Without a doubt.
I’ve been using the ? for a while but I haven’t yet found the right “term” for “show all” or at least “show 200″ results in Google as well as WordPress (on the manage posts panel). Any luck with those queries?
Google forces a hard limit on query results to 100 per page (just as we’re limited to 1000 results total). I guess the goal here is to block data mining by other, less reputable search engines (are there any reputable ones?) and other operations, as well as limit index spamming—it always seems to come down to spam, doesn’t it? If there is a “show all” method it’s most likely internal to the Google folk.
As for Manage > Posts in WordPress, you’re of course using Brian’s plugin, correct Lorelle? Try
-1as the “Show posts per page” value. Just be ready for a long delay as it displays the posts, and a possible (scratch that, likely) error about execution time.