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Editor: Matt Paines

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Indexing Summit
Danny Sullivan chaired the meeting which included Matt Cutts from Google, Kaushal Kurapati from ASK, Tim Mayer from Yahoo and Eytan Seidman from MSN Search.

A couple of weeks ago Danny Sullivan proposed a means of linking without actually helping the recipient site with PageRank. The reason is to make guest books and blogs less open to abuse. The search engines have embraced the idea and have been in the process of implementing the new standard. We are now seeing a new period of glasnost. Where the search engines are inviting views from the industry as to what other issues exist that can be implemented.

• Other issues up for discussion
  Redirects - 301/302 and how to handle them.
  Banned - a means of identifying if a site is banned.
  Reporting - better tools that indicate the progress of indexing.
  Express inclusion - is an express service needed.
  Keyword referrals - recent changes in the SE's have meant keywords are becoming more difficult to collect
  Duplicate handling - identifying priority pages
  Domain management - multiple domains pointing to one
  Index indicator - to show when search engines are indexing
  Page specific tags - requesting spiders not to read sections of pages
  Date specific - prioritising dated content
  java script handling
  Re examining meta data
  Standards of conduct
  An official list of ip address for Spiders
  

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