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From: "J.A. Florian" <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] What's essential to a great genealogy website?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:20:12 -0400
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Since genealogy is "old data", I don't see a problem with "out of date"
sites. As another example, I put newspaper items on my sites. Once a page
is full with the image plus transcription, it's full -- so it won't be
updated.

Personally, I don't like the "last update" statements. As a piece of
trivia, "last updated" returns 127,000,000 results. Even minus java scripts
et al, that's a ton of "last updated" statements on the 'Net.


On a related note, one META TAG on content can specify that the page(s)
"never" expires for Google bots. Many WYSIWYG programs stick in a date
there. Worth looking at to see if your site has the tag and what it
specifies (a date? never?)

Judy

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Tom Beatty <> wrote:

> One of my pet peeves is finding a website that is way out-of-date. You'll
> often see "last updated May 23, 2004," or some other long-ago date. If the
> site's worth having, then it's worth keeping current. TRB
>
> Tom Beatty
> Georgetown, KY

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