> 7. Search engines are not linked into the FAQs automatically and require
> the authors to do much of that themselves.
>
> I'll be quite honest with everyone. I have been part of the problem
> when it comes to becoming engrained into the search engines. I have
> had the opportunity to do so but there was no way for me to pay for a
> dedicated T3 and the systems to make it happen. I talked with a couple
> different people at search engines that would have liked to put the
> FAQs up as a searchable resource (an still do). Unless there was some
> way to fund that link it just wasn't going to happen. And I just couldn't
> convince the search engines to foot the bill... At the time advertising
> was an absolute no-no on www.faqs.org due to author wishes which I honored.
> That sort of tied my hands. There was no way to do it for some and not for
> others... The reality is that we need to get in a situation where we are
> directly tied to the search engines so our material does come up near the
> very top of the search results.
How about doing a mirror of www.faqs.org at the search engines? This
would certainly solve the bandwidth problem, and off the top of my head,
there shouldn't be any licensing problems. I don't think you'd want to
make it exclusive to any one engine of course, but unless I'm missing
something, mirrors could be a solution to this problem.
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