Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 05/17/05 19:48

Blinky the Shark wrote:

> nice.guy.nige wrote:
>> While the city slept, Roy Schestowitz (newsgroups@schestowitz.com)
>> feverishly typed...
>
>>> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
>
>>>> I have noticed that Google seems to have given a lower rank to the
>>>> website https://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com
>>>> since I began using the https protocol and php.
>> [...]
>>> alt.internet.search-engine would definitely provide you with an
>>> answer to this question which is off-topic for alt.html. SEO and
>>> design are separate in my opinion.
>
>> It is generally accepted in this group that "pretty much any web-related
>> discussion is on topic here", although it is agreed that some subjects
>> may receive more authoratitive replies in a specialised group. More info
>> here: http://www.html-faq.com/alt.html/?ontopic
>
>> While we are on the subject of how to post, it is usually appreciated if
>> you snip the OP's sig from your reply ;-)
>
> It would help if Luigi was using a valid sig; then a decent news client
> would auto-snip it and it wouldn't have to be manually removed.

I was just about to say that before glancing at Blinky's post.

Regarding on- and off-topic, I was perhaps exaggerating a bit. I was trying
to be helpful to Luigi and perhaps I was. Have a look at
alt.internet.search-engines and you will see that he gets dozens of useful
replies and a lively discussion takes place.

Roy

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