Looks good.
It is repeating the words Washington County and Pleasant Hill a couple
times.
and the words cemetery, burial, and tombstone all good search terms.
The word Wisconsin is at the bottom of the page, if I recall so you should
be good to go.
Ellen-
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: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:12:47 -0400
Okay, I was working on a cemetery when all the terrific
ideas came in.. is this what you all mean? I have put many
up this last week, yet announced, so this is the guinea pig
<g>
Washington County (Hartford) Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Tombstone Photos
These burial ground photos were generously taken and
contributed to the Pleasant Hill Cemetery pages by Larry and
Linda Kopet! Please take a moment to thank them for this
terrific cemetery resource. Use your browser back button to
return to the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Washington 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.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/cemetery/washington-hartford-pleasan...
Thanks,
Tina
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen- (Genealogy)"
<jeanealogist(a)hotmail.com>
To: <WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] HTML code
>I completely understand!
>Just trying to help. As soon as we figure it all out and get the pages
>changes the way we think is right, Google will change it's algorithm. Then
>we can start all over. <grin>
>
>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 23:06:17 -0400
>>
>>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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