Good suggestions, thank you Ellen, with so many photos submitted I am lucky
if I remember to change the email addy for those that aren't the Kopets. I
will see what I can do. Thanks!
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellen- (Genealogy)" <jeanealogist(a)hotmail.com>
To: <WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] HTML code
I am working on revising a lot of my pages to improve rankings. I got
lazy
for a while and took short cuts. :(
http://linkstothepast.com/waukesha/index.html
http://linkstothepast.com/waukesha/deaths.html
Are probably two better examples. If you view the source you will see
what I did.
Tina what I meant by links to the page is if you cross referenced the cem
page for example this one:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/cemetery/melendys.html
to the county page here
http://linkstothepast.com/waukesha/32.html
It would increase link popularity. (and vice versa, county pages link to
state pages)
If you also put more text about burials on the page it would help the
ranking too.
Instead of:
These photos were generously taken and contributed to these pages by Larry
& Linda Kopet! Please take a moment to thank them for this terrific
resource! Use your back browser button to return to this page. Please
note that these generous contributions do not necessarily depict all
tombstone photographs for a given cemetery.
These burial ground photos were generously taken and contributed to the
Melendy Prairie Cemetery pages by Larry & Linda Kopet! Please take a
moment to thank them for this terrific cemetery resource. Use your
browser back button to return to the main Waukesha County cemetery page.
Please note that these generous contributions do not necessarily depict
all the burials for a given cemetery. Photographs may not have been taken
for every tombstone.
Most researchers don't read the top part anyway <grin> so even though it
might sound a little redundant or wordy the search engines love the words.
E-
>From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery(a)adelphia.net>
>Reply-To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
>To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] HTML code
>Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:32:55 -0400
>
>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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