Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: How do we get our web site more visible?

[Mabel Liang (mabel]

Tom,

Besides the links stuff that Tree talked about, something that is very
important to search engines is the "meta" stuff at the beginning of your
html code.  I don't remember all the technical terms, but I hope what
follows gives you a general idea.

It looks like when you say that you tested various search terms, that you
were entering these search terms into Google.  I looked at your source,
and there's nothing in there about "keywords".  Look at the source for
Jamaica Plain Cohousing, and look at all the keywords they have.

http://www.jpcohousing.org/

They were on the second page when I searched on "cohousing Massachusetts",
and "Massachusetts" isn't even in their list of keywords!

I also found this article by entering "search optimization" (without the
quotes) into Google.

http://www.seochat.com/showblog/8087/Search-Engines-How-to-make-them-a-TAG-they-will-love

The general thrust is that you should have a title for your page that has
the keywords you want.  So you'd have a title of something like "Concord
Village cohousing community in Pennsylvania".  There's many more choices
of topics in the left frame, like "Google Optimization".

Hope that helps.  Feel free to contact me off-line with more questions,
but it may take me a few days to get back to you.

-- Mabel :-)

Mabel Liang
mabel [at] twomeeps.com
Software Engineer turned Gardener

Cornerstone Village Cohousing
Cambridge, Massachusetts
(no, I didn't do our web page, and no, it apparently doesn't have keywords!)

> Here's one more question our group needs help with:
>
> What are the best ways to get our web site to come up on Google or other
> search engines?  I've tested various search terms, and we don't appear in
> at
> least the first 5 pages of Google, even if I put in "cohousing
> Pennsylvania", which should get us in at least the first 10 sites listed
> if
> the Net and searching were rational.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Hammmer
> concordvillage.org
>
>
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