[Genealib] Lost in Google (Was: Re: Hayes Obit Index in Chicago)

[Joe]

Hello Karen,
I think part of the reason why your library's newspaper index
<http://news.wilmette.lib.il.us/> may not be easy to find in Google is
the title on the index's webpage (what goes between the TITLE tags in
the HTML code) - it says simply "Search." You might see if your
webmaster can change that to something more descriptive like:
Wilmette, Illinois Newspaper Index Search. Also the page has no meta
description tag to describe the contents of the page. For some help
with these sorts of things see...

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35770

http://zensite.home.att.net/meta.html

I have your site in my directory on the Cook County page, which is one
of the most visited pages of my site. So that should help :)

Regards,
Joe

--
Online Searchable Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries
http://www.deathindexes.com/

Karen Miller <kakmiller at yahoo.com> wrote:

> We have an online index for our local paper, but can't
> seem to get Google to find it. Is your index
> discoverable by the standard search engines?
>
> Karen Miller
> Wilmette Public Library