Thank you Ray, hope you will all take notice on this... we need to get out there and be seen and if this will help us be seen then we will be used more in reseach. I have asked Ray for some other helpful hints and am still in thought over his ideas. Gail On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Ray Gurganus <ray@gurganus.org> wrote: > I've mentioned some of these before, but it helps to repeat from time to > time to keep it fresh for everyone. Here are some ideas for improving > website performance in how you're found in search engine results. > > 1) Be sure to populate the <title></title> tags at the top of each page > with a relevant description for the content of the page, plus a brief > description of the site itself. For example, if your site is for Martin > County, NC, every <title></title> throughout the site should contain > "Martin County, NC" (or some form thereof), plus the title for the > individual page. Besides controlling what shows in the title bar of the > window, it tells search engines what the page contains. > > 2) It is helpful to have the filename of the page also contain the title, > something like "obituary-john-smith-1850-1925.html", using dashes instead > of spaces. Using abbreviated names like "objsmith.html" will work, but > don't add much to the meaning when a search engine indexes it. > > 3) For title that appears on the page, like "Obituary for John Smith > 1850-1925", use <h1></h1> or <h2></h2> tags to identify the heading > format. Using something like <font size="20">Obituary for John Smith > 1850-1925</font> does not indicate any importance for this text, and > usually the title is the most important part of the page. > > 4) For other headings and subheadings, use <h2></h2> (if not used for the > title), <h3></h3> and <h4></h4>, with the higher numbers for lower-level > subheadings. > > These things help search engines to evaluate and rank your information, and > if you get a better rank, more people may find you. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TTTP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > --
Should I do a separate page for each obit or can I put them all on one page and use a search engine on it Jeannie in KY From: Gail Kilgore <gail.kilgore@gmail.com> To: tttp@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [TTTP] search engine optimization tips Thank you Ray, hope you will all take notice on this... we need to get out there and be seen and if this will help us be seen then we will be used more in reseach. I have asked Ray for some other helpful hints and am still in thought over his ideas. Gail On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Ray Gurganus <ray@gurganus.org> wrote: > I've mentioned some of these before, but it helps to repeat from time to > time to keep it fresh for everyone. Here are some ideas for improving > website performance in how you're found in search engine results. > > 1) Be sure to populate the <title></title> tags at the top of each page > with a relevant description for the content of the page, plus a brief > description of the site itself. For example, if your site is for Martin > County, NC, every <title></title> throughout the site should contain > "Martin County, NC" (or some form thereof), plus the title for the > individual page. Besides controlling what shows in the title bar of the > window, it tells search engines what the page contains. > > 2) It is helpful to have the filename of the page also contain the title, > something like "obituary-john-smith-1850-1925.html", using dashes instead > of spaces. Using abbreviated names like "objsmith.html" will work, but > don't add much to the meaning when a search engine indexes it. > > 3) For title that appears on the page, like "Obituary for John Smith > 1850-1925", use <h1></h1> or <h2></h2> tags to identify the heading > format. Using something like <font size="20">Obituary for John Smith > 1850-1925</font> does not indicate any importance for this text, and > usually the title is the most important part of the page. > > 4) For other headings and subheadings, use <h2></h2> (if not used for the > title), <h3></h3> and <h4></h4>, with the higher numbers for lower-level > subheadings. > > These things help search engines to evaluate and rank your information, and > if you get a better rank, more people may find you. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TTTP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TTTP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message