[wplug-web] Improve your website please

Evan DiBiase esd at cmu.edu
Fri Jan 16 15:40:36 EST 2004


Unfortunately, the keywords META tag, which is what I believe you're 
referring to, is largely ignored by search engines nowadays, because 
they're quite easy to spam (porn sites had nasty habits of putting all 
kinds of popular terms in theirs).

Evan

On Jan 16, 2004, at 12:20 PM, PAUL MORAN wrote:

> I had a very difficult time finding your website.  I would have given 
> up if I didn't already know there were regular lug meetings in 
> Pittsburgh.  I will be attending one this saturday.
>  
> I would suggest adding some search terms to your homepage to improve 
> search engine postings.  The metadata html tag is used and I think 
> keywords it the type.  Anyway, I'm sure someone could look it up with 
> very little difficulty.
>  
> some example keywords would be: pittsburgh, pa, lug, linux, group, 
> user, western pa
>  
> This would allow a new person who didn't know the exact path 
> "wplug.org" to find your site more quickly.
>  
> I was using Yahoo as my search engine, so it is possible you would be 
> easier to google or AOL search.
>  
> Just a suggestion I have seen help others.
> Paul Moran
> Potential Technologies
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