Greetings, all,
Several days after adding personalized URLs to my "amazing" collection
of "God Loves (yourname)" mazes, it occurred to me that if someone were
to create an offcolor term, then copy the URL to his own web page, that
I might be penalized because my page would include that text on the
resulting page.
For example, let's say that "GOD LOVES JOKES" has negative
connotations. Someone could create:
http://mazes.com/asp-maze/godloves.asp?firstname=jokes
and visiting the page reveals a headline "God Loves Jokes".
Could I hurt my search engine rankings by giving people the ability to
create a personalized URL like this? Of course, what's the likelihood
that someone would abuse such a link?
The next related question would be: Is there a metatag or the
equivalent that I could put on a page that is reached with a
personalized URL telling the search engines to ignore this page in
their searches? I could always add logic to add that code to any page
source code that was reached with a personalized URL from another page.
Which brings up yet another question? Can I, in my ASP program, tell
what page contained the link that the person just visited?
John
P.S. I've also added an ENLARGE button, a SHRINK button, and a
PRINTABLE button that merely hides the information above the maze so
that it will be the topmost/leftmost item on the page when you print.