promotion & cataloguing agcj 407 web authoring in agricultural communications
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Promotion & Cataloguing
AGCJ 407Web Authoring in Agricultural
Communications
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AGCJ 407: Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications
Overview
Discuss Search Engine types. Explore the “top” Search Engines
used. Review META tag types. Discuss Site Optimization
techniques. Examine Other Tips used in
promoting your Web site.
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Search Engines
A primary way to find Web sites Two types of engines
Crawler Based Human Based
Great way to market your site
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Top Search Engines
Google http://www.google.com/
AllTheWeb.com (FAST) http://www.alltheweb.com
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Ask Jeeves http://www.askjeeves.com
AltaVista http://www.altavista.com
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Top Search Engines (cont)
Google Top Choice for all Search engines Most Powerful Crawler Based Search Engine
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
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AllTheWeb.com (FAST) Crawler-based search engine Powers the primary results for the
popular Lycos http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
Top Search Engines (cont)
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Yahoo Powered by Google Enhances Google's listings with
information from its own directory http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
Top Search Engines (cont)
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Ask Jeeves Human/Crawler Hybrid Search Engine "natural language" search engine Crawler may eventually find your site Submission requires money
http://ask.ineedhits.com/
Top Search Engines (cont)
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Alta Vista Oldest crawler-based search engine
on the Web Still highly used
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new
Top Search Engines (cont)
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How will Web users find me?
Three essential steps: Incorporate tags Search engine registration Register the URL
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Taking Advantage of Meta Tags
Overall, 96% of current Web sites use the common <<Title>> tag
30% include <<Keyword>> tags Among sites with Keywords, 25%
have tags exceeding the recommended 200-character length.
27% include <<Description>> tags
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TAG: You’ve Got a Hit!
Include “meta-tags” in your Web site TITLE = (enter your Website Title) KEYWORDS = (enter your search criteria) CONTENT = (enter your search criteria) DESCRIPTION = (enter your search criteria) SUBJECT = (enter your search criteria)
Tags are always “hidden” Tags are located in the “HEAD” area
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Site Optimization (cont.)
Meta Tags (Description) Some engines like Google ignores this
tag <HEAD>
<TITLE>Using META</TITLE><META name="description" content="Everything you wanted to know about META Tags."></HEAD>
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Site Optimization (cont.)
Meta Tags (Keywords) Supported by few crawlers <HEAD>
<TITLE>Using META</TITLE><META name="keywords" content=“META Tags, Keywords, Descriptions, How-To, Search Engines"> </HEAD>
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Site Optimization
Act of altering your site so that it may rank well for particular terms in crawler-based search engines
Pick Your Target Keywords Different keywords to reflect each
page At least two or more words
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Site Optimization (cont.)
Position Your Keywords Page's HTML title tag is most
important Build titles around the top two or
three phrases Target keywords for page headline Appear in the first paragraphs
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Site Optimization (cont.)
Relevant Content HTML text is "visible“ (not same color
as background ALT text for graphics helps Expanded text references
i.e. cars, sports cars, sport sedans
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Site Optimization (cont.)
Links Every major search engine uses link
analysis Crawlers find your site from other
related sites. Exchange links with other related
sites
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Site Optimization (cont.)
Submit Your Key Pages Submit the top two or three pages
that best summarize Web site Search engines will index the other
pages from your Web site (link analysis)
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Free Search Engine Sign-up
Post your URL with other engines Yahoo! (65M/day) AOL (53M/day) MSN (45M/month) Lycos (25M/day) GO (22M/month) Excite (19M/month)
“Top” engines can only search 1/5th of the total volume found on the Internet
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Search Engines?
Search engines constantly change their search and return algorithms
No outside source can guarantee a top position
Different search engines use different criteria for positioning
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What do search engines like?
Keywords Accurate Titles Concise Content Meta Tags Short URL's Shallow Pages Directories
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What do search engines hate?
Spamming Hidden Text Frames All graphic sites Tildes
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Other Tips
Don’t Spam Search Engines (submitting sites more than once)
Sites are found through word-of-mouth, traditional advertising, the traditional media, newsgroup postings, web directories and links from other sites
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Other Tips (cont.)
Use free site submission services Submit Express
http://submitexpress.com/ Add Me
http://tools.addme.com/servlet/s0new
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That’s All Folks!