Stolen Coin Slab Project .. 2nd stage

coinpage · November 17, 2003 1:19PM

Orginally I thought a database for posting stolen coin slabs was a good idea...

Original Post here

But I have abandoned that idea for this one:

We can use the search engines to create a psuedo stolen coin database.
I can provide a template for an HTML page that would format Meta Tags, standard label descriptors etc. The person who had their coins stolen could create a 'standard' html page using this template. They would then copy the html and host it on their own site. An example of a 'standard' html that could be generated

They would be responsible for getting their page indexed with the search engines. The above page took 3.5 days to get indexed. The google cycle is approximately 4 days.

Any user wanting to check for stolen coins would then go to a search engine like google and search on the unique phrase. Here I've chosen 'scslabp' (Stolen Coin Slab Project)

Specific coins could be searched like this coin specific search with google

or this coin specific search with metacrawler

Or to get a entire list a search like this entire set of pages search with google

In the 1st stage I have proven the concept. Now I need a couple of volunteers, preferably those which had coins in slabs stolen in any time in the past to come forward. I would like to create more 'standard' HTML pages of actual stolen coins. One coin per page, only slabbed coins with serial/certification #s.

- I will manually format the pages with the data given and email them to you.
- you would host them on your website, providing a link from a webpage already indexed by a search engine.
- make note of the time it takes for the search engine to pickup the page.
- we will use the search phrase 'scslabp' to test the results of our efforts

If all goes well, I can move on to stage 3 & actually write an html generator for the public to use...
P.S. This would be a free service. If this caught on I wouldn't be able to control it anyway.

coinpage · November 19, 2003 12:53PM

No volunteers at all? Has anyone whose had their coins stolen want to try?

Placid · November 19, 2003 1:04PM

How do I put a coin in?

lordmarcovan · November 19, 2003 1:10PM

I had two stolen in January that I would put in, but I have to get the cert #'s, and do this from a 'puter that ain't actin' up so bad, like this one at work...

stujoe · November 19, 2003 1:16PM

I haven't had any slabs stolen so I can't help out on that end but...

Are those searches supposed to return something? I can't find your example page in google when I just searched it.

Google is going through a major update right now so maybe your example page not showing up is just temporary? or maybe it had a fresh tag and has dropped back out temporarily?

coinpage · November 19, 2003 1:18PM

Either Post or PM me or email me at coinpage@coinpage.com
and send me the following

Grading company & cert #
Description:
Any URL links to the images of the coin:
Police Report#: or url link to a police report
Date Stolen:
Police Contact:
Reward Amt:
Contact info one or more of the following

Contact:
Contact Phone:
Contact Fax:
Contact email: info@coinpage.com

and I will send a 'standard' formatted HTML page to put on your site.

coinpage · November 19, 2003 1:24PM

stujoe,

Wow that page was showing on the search this morning, let me see if I can find out what happened...

stujoe · November 19, 2003 1:31PM

It is probably the google update then. It should show back up in a while.

My new site has dropped and reappeared two or three times in the last couple of days. Eventually, it will 'stick'.

ScarsdaleCoin · November 19, 2003 1:34PM

I think that it is a grand idea but I think you are making it to complicated....a lot of people will get scared off to create and host their own web page and some people just dont have computer ability....I liked your idea of having a site where people can fill out a form and it gets posted...I am sure that a large grading service might have an interest in providing some help......hint hint.....thats my 3 cents...

coinpage · November 19, 2003 1:35PM

stujoe,

I hope that's it

with thousands of "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" out there , I wouldn't think that a phrase like "scslabp" would be a bother

stujoe · November 19, 2003 1:42PM

That should be it. Your idea is sound with the unique identifier. One thing you might also do is put the unique identifier in the page title when you create the page. That should help google return it in a search better even if it ends up not being 100% unique. The keyword in a page title gets a little google boost (at least these days...can't ever tell the future

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coinpage · November 19, 2003 1:44PM

<< <i>I think that it is a grand idea but I think you are making it to complicated....a lot of people will get scared off to create and host their own web page and some people just dont have computer ability....I liked your idea of having a site where people can fill out a form and it gets posted...I am sure that a large grading service might have an interest in providing some help......hint hint.....thats my 3 cents... >>

I do plan to have a form people can fill out, but I don't want to host the pages myself. That puts me in a middle position maybe having to verify data. goto court etc.

I know it's not a perfect solution, but we got nothing now. I figure something is better than nothing. and it seems to me that people that have high $ coins stolen are motivated to try to do something.

Stolen Coin Slab Project .. 2nd stage

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