Can you provide any guidance on including key words etc, to aid search engines in finding our websites?  Is there an HTML command associated with this and what approaches have been found effective.  Thanks for the big effort here.  Curt

Excellent resource https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769/?hl=en Pat G -----Original Message----- From: Curt Milton via FREEPAGES-HELP [mailto:freepages-help@rootsweb.com] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 6:09 PM To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Cc: Curt Milton <wb8yyy@yahoo.com> Subject: [FreeHelp]Content to Aid Search Engines Can you provide any guidance on including key words etc, to aid search engines in finding our websites? Is there an HTML command associated with this and what approaches have been found effective.

Curt, There is no HTML command as such. Google and other web spiders use their own algorithms to index and rate a website and each page within each website. The two most important places to put search engine information are in the <title> </title> field at the beginning of each html page, and also in the <h1> </h1> "headline" which is usually the first visible text of each page. If your website is about the genealogy of the Milton family, then your page title should be something like <title>Milton Family Genealogy</title>. Your "headline" could be something like "<h1>Descendants of George Milton and Elizabeth Smith</h1>" (or whatever). Please don't waste the <title> area by putting in something silly like "Genealogy" because it will get completely buried by a million other similar wasted titles. The same goes for your "h1" title. If you put in something cute but unrelated to what the website is actually about, then people will have a harder time finding it. After you've posted your website on the internet, you must then submit it to Google and other search engines. Don't pay some company to do it for you -- most of them are scams. You can do it yourself with a few clicks. The only search engines which matter are Google and I guess Bing. I've never used anything else and 99% of internet users don't either. Here's a starting link to register your site on Google -- https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34397?hl=en. Here's a starting link to register your site on Bing -- https://www.bing.com/toolbox/submit-site-url Note that you submit a website to each search engine only once. After it has been submitted, it's good to go for ever. Good luck, Charlie Dobie. At 06:08 PM 8/12/2018, you wrote: >Can you provide any guidance on including key >words etc, to aid search engines in finding our >websites? Is there an HTML command associated >with this and what approaches have been found effective. > >Thanks for the big effort here. > >Curt > >_______________________________________________ >Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref >Unsubscribe and Archives >https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/freepages-help >Privacy Statement: >https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 >Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog >RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com >and our loyal RootsWeb community