Viewstate & Search Engines Update
Continuing my viewstate tests to if it has any affect on search rankings. My test pages for viewstate aren’t showing up in Google yet. The index page is there and Palehorse’s page is there. I don’t care if the test pages beat any other pages on the net, I just want to compare them relative to each other.
I figure I’d try linking to each page directly from here. Also, I removed the test word from the index page and added links to all six test pages on each test page. Here’s the links:
[...] Today’s search paradigms do not fit within that mold. It is impossible, no matter what someone tells you, to be certain of what will affect the algorithms in what manner. Want proof? Just look at the great viewstate debate. From tests I’ve seen there is absolutely no evidence that search engines do not like it. In fact, in the test a co-worker of mine performed a page with a huge viewstate ranked highest out of other samples! [...]