Good question.
Our family tree, mail list, and website are all hosted by RootsWeb ---
see
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
In the column on the left, you'll see "Family Trees (World Connect)" and
right under that is "WorldConnect Proect Main Page".
The next main heading below that is "Mailing Lists".
But getting to our question, the column to the right of that one is
headed by "Websites". And immediately under that is "Websites at
RootsWeb". Clicking on that brings you to
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~websites/
People looking for genealogy websites will be able to go to that page
and find us under "Surnames" by clicking on the entry "C-Caro".
That takes them to
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~websites/surnames/c.html where they
will see number of Campbell related web sites --- including ours as of
tomorrow.
It won't mean the world beating a path to our door, but it's an
additional way for folks to find us.
The search engines have been indexing our website's pages for a long
time, so people have been able to find us via search engines, which is
probably the path that will be used most often. But that's for the
general public. This new path is likely to be used by serious genealogists.
Speaking of search engines, I have started adding "Descreptions" to our
web pages for the engines to display on their list of hits. Searchers
will have a better idea of the content to be found if they click on a
link to our site.
On 9/12/2013 5:50 PM, Betsy Gorman wrote:
That's great! What exactly is the Hosted Site Registry?
Betsy
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Thompson <billthompson76(a)gmail.com>
To: campbell-pa-nelson <campbell-pa-nelson(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thu, Sep 12, 2013 5:41 pm
Subject: [Ca-Pa-Ne] Fwd: HSR Submission
n the
We may get noticed more because of this.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: HSR Submission
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:36:14 -0600
From: hsr_support(a)rootsweb.com
To: billthompson76(a)gmail.com
Dear William Thompson,
Your submission to the Hosted Site Registry:
Campbells, Hazletts, Luggs, Blackwells & Associated Families of Nelson, Tioga
Co., PA
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~capane/index.html
has been approved and your site will be added to our index in 1 business day.
HSR Support