How to reach more classic computer users?

Absolutely true. I already complained about the freeware archives that I maintain dropping out of several prominent search engines where they used to be prominently mentioned. The pages (and pages referring to these pages) have been submitted to the search engines many times since they disappeared, but have never come back. Here's where I'm sure someone can help me. If anyone could look at, for example, my DECUS freeware index at http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/decus/ and particularly suggest which META tags I might have to add again to make this page (and the pages that it refers to) show up in search engines, I'd greatly appreciate it! Back when these pages were indexed by search engines, they'd get hundreds of search hits a day. But now they never ever turn up, and I don't know why. I mean, the pages still have the same information they always did, and it's not like anyone else has a similar index on the web that replaces this one. Maybe I'm oversimplifying things, but it seemed to me that a couple of years ago the search engines did a very good job of finding a page based on content. For example, if I knew a key phrase that occured somewhere on a page, I could do an Altavista search for that phrase (in quotes) and get a hit every single time. This doesn't seem to work the same way anymore. Is it because search engines no longer index based on content? If they aren't based on content, then what the heck are they based on? And I've also been warned that adding too many META tags will actually cause some search engines to reject a page (or even an entire site) for indexing, as they don't want folks essentially using search engines as a form of Spam. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927