FAQ presence on web search engines

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Danny R. Faught (faught@rsn.hp.com)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:30:22 -0600 (CST)

I've noticed that the presence of my FAQ on the web search engines is
abysmal. Do others have the same problem?

My FAQ is in the rtfm archives, so it makes it out to all the
automatic FAQ web archive sites, including faqs.org. And there's an
independent site that hosts the FAQ. So it's reasonable to think that
the contents of the FAQ would be indexed on the web search engines.
Is there a universal solution to the problem, perhaps convincing the
web spiders to dig down deeper into faqs.org to get to the FAQ
contents?

When the engines do hit my FAQ, it comes out very low on a long list
of hits, even though the keywords were specifically selected to target
the FAQ. Is there any way we can get the FAQs to come out on top when
the keywords lead to them, especially when "FAQ" is one of the
keywords?

-Danny

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