Google's indexing of the OEIS

[Jaap Spies]

N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
> Dear Seqfans,
> Do any of you understand about "META" lines?
> 
[...]
> 
> It occurred to me that maybe there should be better headers
> - META lines, maybe? - on these files,
> that would make it easier for Google to see them ?
> 
> NJAS
> 
> 
Dear Neil,

META tags can be used to make webpages more visible to Webcrawlers.
But note that most robots can not cope with dynamic generated HTML pages.

see: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4


 > META and search engines
 >
 > A common use for META is to specify keywords that a search engine may use to improve
 > the quality of search results.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#recs on helping search engines

 > Robots and the META element
 >
 > The META element allows HTML authors to tell visiting robots whether a document may be indexed,
 > or used to harvest more links. No server administrator action is required.

This is not what you want, but cab be eventually of some use.

 > In the following example a robot should neither index this document, nor analyze it for links.
 > <META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
 >
 > The list of terms in the content is ALL, INDEX, NOFOLLOW, NOINDEX.

Google specific information can be foun at:
	http://www.google.com/remove.html
	http://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
	http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html#A2
	http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

Regards,

Jaap Spies