Boosting files

emgal

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Boosting files

Mar-16-2006, 11:58 AM

I want to prioritise HTML files over PDF files. I have used the Indexing Options, Word Boosting section to set to +5 the page title, description, heading and keywords - on the logic that these are in HTML files and not in PDF files and that the keywords will contain the phrases people are likely to search with.

I have three questions:

a) Is this the correct approach?

b) Is it necessary to add any specific HTML code into the HTML files to help this search?

c) Is there anything else I can do to move ensure that HTML are higher up the results than PDF files?

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David

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Mar-16-2006, 07:51 PM

Sounds OK. Note that some PDF files might have title & keyword meta data in them.

You might also want to turn on "Strong content density". This will favour small documents (HTML) over longer documents (PDF). Of course this assumes your PDFs are longer than a single page.

For individual pages that you want near the top of results, add this HTML in the <head>.

<meta name="ZOOMPAGEBOOST" content="5">

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