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. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
