The exam was what I expected and I think I did fine.
For now, let’s have some fun.
I know that search engines loves when pages are well optimized and looking at my blog @ http://www.excitris.com, I saw how unoptimized it was even though it looked fine.
I went to the page source and looked at the page size: almost 40.0 KB of text. I started writing a “cloaker” script which would make smaller pages for search engine by removing the header and some navigation content which brought me to 21.5 KB of text. What a great bandwidth saving and page optimization at the same time. I’m now working on the part where it removes the comments. My test show that by removing the comments, I can go to a pagesize of 18.2 KB. Removing the ads: 16.7 KB.
The pages sure look ugly, but search engines spiders don’t care. They want the actual content, not the HTML formatting (except maybe the title, h1, h2 and such). From 40.0 KB I went to 16.7 KB, saving 58.3% in bandwidth. This will also assure me to get better ranking in search engines as the stuff their spider sees is near the top.
I’ll make the script available as soon as there aren’t anymore bugs when the page convert. So stay tuned.
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