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Improving Search Results through Intelligent Indexing
Excluding Documents from Being Indexed
Using the Extentions to Include Option
Optimizing Search Results
There are a number of ways administrators can optimize the performance of
their search sites and services.
You can improve the accuracy of your search results by following these
indexing guidelines:
When defining and creating your indexes, start with the highest-level
Web Site URLs and File System Paths possible.
If content is showing up in your search results that you don't want
included, try removing some paths or URLs from your defined indexes.
Also, try excluding specific subdirectories that you know or suspect
might contain content that you don't want searched.
If you've indexed too many file types and cluttered your search results, try
removing file types that you don't want indexed by using the Extensions
to Exclude option on the Define Index page or implementing and using
the Robots META tag in your Web sites content and by configuring Web
Search to work with them. See the following section for more
information.
One way to improve search results is to guard what content is actually
indexed, thus clearing a path for relevant information.
As mentioned above, you can use the Extensions to Exclude option to direct
Web Search to ignore specific filetypes. However, if you can't specify all of
the extensions to exclude, use the Extensions to Include option and specify all
acceptable file extensions. A typical list would specify HTM, HTML, PDF,
TXT, and DOC.
HINT:
When entering extensions in the Extensions to Exclude box, separate each
extension by a space or a hard return. Avoid using commas. For example:
htm html pdf txt doc
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