<div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/3/15, Ron Lake <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:rlake@galdosinc.com" target="_blank">rlake@galdosinc.com</a>>:</span>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It is easy to make a WFS discoverable by Google Search.</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote>Ron just explained to me "
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Read the (WxS) capabilities and create a KML file for Google robot to find." That's what I meant when I wrote before "This could be where OpenSearch, Google Sitemaps or KML come in".
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And there are some more SEO tricks which I divide into two approaches: i) self-declaration (HTML-meta tags, feed icons, chicklets) and ii) foreign citation policies (feed of feeds, relationship attributes).
<br></span><br>So, the bottom line is that there are several ways to attract crawlers. But if I we come to an agreement about a "geospatial autodiscovery policy" (before Google dictates it...) that would allow us to bundle resources and write focused specific crawlers for location aware search engines (sometimes called metadata catalogues... :->)!
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<div><br>-- Stefan</div>
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<div>P.S. Sorry if we're running off GeoRSS topic but discovery seems to me worthwhile to dicsuss in order to boost open geodata including GeoRSS encoded content.
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