Ice Age Google search weirdness
So this one kind of puzzles me. Right now if you do a Google search for 'ice age' or 'ice age movie', the first site that comes up is www.titanicmovie.com with the title "Ice Age 2" and decription from the Ice Age 2 movie site. Now the Titanic movie site is also a Fox website and I thought maybe they copied files from the Ice Age 2 website as a template and accidentally left meta tags and stuff in there. But that doesn't appear to be the case. As I am writing this, I think I have figured out the problem. Both websites are built in Flash. It seems highly likely that the Titanic site was created from a template that the Ice Age 2 website was created with. With Flash 8 you can embed meta tag information in your swf movie files that will be indexed by search engines; information like page title and description.What is really bad about this though is that our official site doesn't even show up in Google's index. Interesting to see how this one turns out. Anyone have any further thoughts on this one?
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That's a bit of a shame. Between that ugly ass first teaser post
That's a bit of a shame. Between that ugly ass first teaser poster and this (not to mention the name change), it seems like Fox have their 'B' team working on the marketing. Well, look at the bright side: Ice Age - crappy marketing, big success; Robots - good marketing, modest success.
Looks like the listing got resolved. We had someone pull down an
Looks like the listing got resolved. We had someone pull down and deconstruct the Flash file on the Titanic website and they didn't find anything in it, but the listing was last indexed on Feb 4th, and it appears someone realized what they had done and fixed it quietly.
Nevermind the fact that we've changed the title of the movie now... but more on that later.
Try submitting the "official" site to DMOZ.org with the hopes it
Try submitting the "official" site to DMOZ.org with the hopes it will get indexed. Google pulls results from Dmoz.org.