Re: In need of help please - how to exclude keywords when doing search

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, DUI wrote:

> I'm a newbie to your script and in to scripting in general.  Our webhost WWM installed the htdig onto our site.  I've got it up and running at www.dui-online.com/test.htm .  BTW we make equipment for diving not for DUI related problems - lol.  OK so my problem is that I have keywords on all my pages and when I got to search for CF200, which is a patented product we have, it pulls up that page 2000+ times.  I want to exclude or lower the score in the keywords and meta tags but I cannot figure out how to change this.  From reading I thought I needed to change the htdig.conf file.  What I tried didn't seem to work.

If you are referring to meta keywords, you might want to start by
looking at the following two attributes.

http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#keywords_meta_tag_names
http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#keywords_factor

If you are using a 3.1.x version, you would need to rebuild your 
database after changing keywords_factor. For the 3.2.x versions this 
shouldn't be necessary.

As I recall, the _factor attributes only lower the score, so even if set
to 0 the results will still show up; they will just have lower scores.

If the keywords are being added dynamically, you might want to consider
using noindex tags. See the following for more information.

   http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#noindex_start


Jim


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