Re: [htdig] Web writing for your search engine

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Deal, David:
> Currently, I'm a contractor working for a foundation that uses the ht://Dig
> search engine. My task is to come up with a guide for "content people"
> (writers and editors) to make articles easier find on the site and be
> "scored higher" on this Web site's search engine, depending on the search
> terms entered into the search engine.
> 
> I understand the importance of using meta tags, descriptions, titles, etc.
> (all the stuff used in the "header" portion of Web pages), but the part
> about how search engines (and ht://Dig in particular) rate and rank the most
> relavant pages baffles me. I understand that the Web page header information
> is given a "value" as configured by the Webmaster here, and there are some
> other things that are important and given a value as well, such as the
> "backlink" factors, "link text" factors, whether the text is placed in H1 or
> H6 style, etc.
> 
> Where can I find some straightforward information about this in the ht:''DIG
> information? I am not a webmaster -- far from it -- but I would like to see
> a more information for the people who add content to Web pages? Who there
> can translate all of that techie information about configuration files into
> something that can be used by the editors to create a more search friendly
> Web page?  

A good starting point would be http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.25
and Malcolm Austen's notes on page scores referenced therein.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)