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Searchable Site

Follow these guidelines to improve your website's searchability and enhance the user experience. Learn about HTML tags, content relevance, URL optimization, and more.

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Searchable Site

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  1. Searchable Site Web Editor Tips Webinar

  2. Google Content Violations Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFxNda5Z4eE By following the guidelines you will help your users to have a better experience on your site. Search

  3. Search engines can only read the programming code with which they are developed • Flash has joined Google results but can not be optimized as HTML. • Graphics, sounds and videos are part of a page that search engines can not decipher Content

  4. HTML tags of importance: • Title • H1, H2, H3 • Relevance of website content • URL • Images • Outgoing Links Content – HTML tags

  5. Define the titles of our pages, which should make a brief reference to the content of the page to which you are assigning, taking care to include the most important words describe the page or section to which we refer.http://howtomakeafreewebsiteeasy.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-your-website-searchable.html Content – Title

  6. Contents importance depends on the number that accompanies it, H1 being the most important and so on until H6. The Title is H1 for ISU Extension and Outreach pages, automatically. http://howtomakeafreewebsiteeasy.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-your-website-searchable.html Content – H1, H2, H3 tags

  7. Create lots of keyword-rich content to make your website searchable. Search engines read code and text, so you should take time to write meaningful content that is relevant for your visitors and naturally includes keywords that people are likely to search. http://www.alamowebsites.com/search-eng/make-your-website-searchable/ Content – Relevance

  8. Be descriptive as possible in the text surrounding a document link. For example, It’s a good idea to describe the document and also label the document name to match. Content – URL

  9. Try to reference a number of resources that extend and complement your page content. A good way to do this is by utilizing a sidebar in your news articles to reflect “Related information” with links to other articles or content pages on the site. Content – URL

  10. Search engines can’t “see” what’s in pictures and graphics, but if you name the image files with appropriate keywords, give them good ALT tags, and include captions or put the images right next to related content, it will help make your website searchable. http://www.alamowebsites.com/search-eng/make-your-website-searchable/ Content – Images

  11. Search Term Horticulture and Home Pest Newsletter IMAGE IMAGE Search – Examples

  12. How to Search • http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/ How to Search on Google

  13. What you want: How to Can Pears Site:extension.iastate.edu~pears“canning” Search - Example

  14. Search - Example

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  16. http://howtomakeafreewebsiteeasy.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-your-website-searchable.htmlhttp://howtomakeafreewebsiteeasy.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-your-website-searchable.html • http://www.alamowebsites.com/search-eng/make-your-website-searchable/ • https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en • http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/ References

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