My comps are located at: http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/10/project/homepage.png and at http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/128b/10/project/photopage.png
After reviewing the Search Engine Presentation, I have the following questions:
1. How do we notify search engines of our site?
2. Are key words specified as key words or just located from words typed in our website?
3. How do we put META descriptions in Dreamweaver?
4. What is a key page?
5. How do we submit key pages to search engines?
6. How many search engines are there and how do we know if we got them all?
November 18, 2007 at 11:53 pm |
Laura
Regarding your website comp:
I feel like there’s too much blue in the design and text – no specific area of text is really grabbing my attention. Why not use varying shades of blue, or some complimentary colors that work well with the font color. Using white text on a blue background for buttons, or something, to distinguish them from the rest of the page?
Also, the sample audio block could sit to the right of the text, with the text wrapping around it perhaps? That would close up the large empty gap below the introductory text.
Jenn
November 18, 2007 at 11:57 pm |
Regarding your questions:
1. This varies depending on the search engine; you can submit it by hand (ie, go to the website for the search engine, and manually submit your information via a form), using an application like Web Position Gold (which runs a script that automatically submits information), or you can contract with a business to do this for you.
2. Keywords are often determined by you, and are normally relative to the content of the site – they naturally fall within the content, and are repeated often (in your case, video, videography, etc).
3. You can insert a META Description by going to Insert > HTML > Head > Description
4. A key page is often one of the main section pages of your website, that has the most conclusive information about the site.
5. See #1
6. This is hard to answer. Searchenginewatch normally details the most popular search engines and how they index pages. But this can change on a daily basis, or as new companies evolve. It’s important to keep current with trends through networking, reading, and continuing education.