Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> writes: > Any search engine gurus out there? > > I'm hoping to find out what we need to do to get www.mn-linux.org to show up > 100(!) listing in google when someone searches for 'minnesota linux'. > > Top 10 would be even better. > > I ask this, because a UofM professor did not know the tclug existed until he > found Real Time and we directed him to the lug. > > He searched for 'minnesota mn linux' and found Real Time before the lug web > site, which is just plain wrong. :-) > > Any hints? > > Do a view source, on the pages of the lug web site. Any recommendations on > keywords and entries? I was the search-engine guru for MultiLogic, and got us around 5th place or better on "restricted stock" for the restrictedstock.com webwsite. (Company, web site, and all now defunct). To get a single page to rank high, you need a high concentration of relevant content on that page. Amount and concentration both count. Finding ways to put "Minnesota" closer to "linux", and a few more times, would probably help. Also, having some headings (<hl *>) containing the key words helps with some engines. You've already got them in the title, which is good (but adding Minnesota would be good, too). Also, note that the big title at the top of the page is graphics-only. That position gives it high importance, but the search engines can't tell what it is. And it should have alt text for *people*, at least, anyway. I'd suggest adding the alt text, and adding an <hl 1> with similar content. And you don't have "linux", alone, even in the meta keyword list. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/