Ellen you mean within the title, I have links to your county pages on the
individual pages, but if to the title is better? I shall see what I can do
<g>.. I have been listening tonight .. terrific information, thanks!
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellen- (Genealogy)" <jeanealogist(a)hotmail.com>
To: <WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] HTML code
Brenda is right. The title tag is very imporant...and I am an expert
:)
I work for a website development company.
Each search engine is different, but most people know google, so I usually
target google in my pages.
The title tag or what goes between the <title> </title> is one of the
things that Google looks at. It also looks at the content of the page.
If you don't put the words Waukesha Cemeteries in your page content, don't
expect it to come up for a search on Waukesha Cemeteries. I add the words
burial, deaths, obituaries, cemetery, burial ground when I can, just to
improve the chances of getting found.
Repeating the word in the content is good, but don't do it more than 5
times or so in the body of your page unless it is a surname or something
that you have to.
Don't make your pages too long. Google will only search so far down the
page and then leave. This is especially important if you have a lot of
biographies on one page. Google will tend to miss the ones at the end. I
don't know what size is short off the top of my head, but shorter pages
that cross link are better.
Updating pages is also a good thing to do. Google looks at the age of the
page and if it hasn't changed in years, it will not review it and it might
decrease as less important to google.
Metatags are not as important as they used to be. But some search engines
use them. Google uses the description tag more than the keywords tag.
Make sure your keywords are relavant to the page. Don't use the same
keywords for your pages. Vary it on each page.
Last but not least, google uses as one of its factors of ranking, link
popularity. The more relavant links that link to your site, the better.
If you know of any relavant sites that can add a link to your page from
their's, ask them to do so. Cyndi's list, other genea indexes. Don't
mean to add work for you Tina, but if on the State Cem pages that Tina has
up, if she added a link to each of our corresponding cem pages or homepage
of our site, that would be good for link popularity.
Ellen-
Waukesha and Manitowoc
>From: KINGSLEY(a)aol.com
>Reply-To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
>To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] HTML code
>Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:25:53 EDT
>
>Hi,
>I read an article some time ago that stated you should have your _title_
>give as much info as you can because search engines were picking up a lot
>that
>way.
>
>ie instead of: WI Gen Records
>be more specific and say: WI Marriage / Death / Birth Records.
>
>titles can be quite long. But, do use the meta tags as well.
>
>Brenda
>_kingsley(a)aol.com_ (mailto:kingsley@aol.com)
>Wolfgram / Zacarhais
>_http://grandtraverseregion.com/grandtraverse/index.htm_
>(http://grandtraverseregion.com/grandtraverse/index.htm)
>_http://hometownedition.com/barratt/index.htm_
>(http://hometownedition.com/barratt/index.htm)
>
>
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