Artotems Search Engines & Blue Herons for iWeb
Search Engines & Blue Herons for iWeb
Submit Your Site
Many who are new to the web believe that this process alone will get their site recognized and highly ranked. Not so. Ranking requires some work. While you should submit your site there’s more to do for ranking.
Meta Tags
(Qualified Statement) Meta Tags are descriptors in the HTML code that search engines use to define your site and its content. For the most part these are ancient history as far as most search engines are concerned. The other elements on the instructions here are far more important. However, if you want to fiddle with the tags you will need to edit the HTML document in your iDisk folder for the page you want to alter. This is done by opening the HTML in a text edit tool like TextWrangler, a shareware program easily found on the web. Remember, once you re-publish your web page iWeb will overwrite your changes so the process must be done after publishing and directly within the HTML file found in iDisk.
A typical meta tage description would look like this.
<HEAD>
<TITLE>COMMUNICATIONS MATTERS</TITLE>
<META name="description" content ="Learn about web communication here.."> <Meta name="keywords" content="Images,Web Documents,Design,Words,Graphics,"> <HEAD>
Page Content
Search Engines are looking at your page titles and your page content (text, image names, etc.) So if you have a site about (uhhh) let's say Blue Herons. You want it to come up on search engines so:
1.Name a page "Blue Herons"
2.Mention "Blue Herons" in your text (several times).
3.Have a picture that's named "Blue Herons, etc. You get the idea.
Links
Next, you need to find someone to link to your site. Search Engines really care if someone else cares enough to link to your site. An easy way to get a link is to make a Blog that resides on some free Blog server and talk about site and link to it often, within reason. Of course, if you can get a highly ranked site to link to your site that's a dream for index position in the search world.
Try it and wait a week and see what happens. Maybe, just maybe it'll be like magic.
THE HERONS OF ELMWOOD
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Warm and still is the summer night,
As here by the river's brink I wander;
White overhead are the stars, and white The glimmering lamps on the hillside yonder.
Silent are all the sounds of day;
Nothing I hear but the chirp of crickets, And the cry of the herons winging their way O'er the poet's house in the Elmwood thickets.
Call to him, herons, as slowly you pass
To your roosts in the haunts of the exiled thrushes, Sing him the song of the green morass; And the tides that water the reeds and rushes.
Sing him the mystical Song of the Hern, And the secret that baffles our utmost seeking; For only a sound of lament we discern, And cannot interpret the words you are speaking.
Sing of the air, and the wild delight
Of wings that uplift and winds that uphold you, The joy of freedom, the rapture of flight Through the drift of the floating mists that infold you.
Of the landscape lying so far below,
With its towns and rivers and desert places; And the splendor of light above, and the glow Of the limitless, blue, ethereal spaces.
Ask him if songs of the Troubadours,
Or of Minnesingers in old black-letter,
Sound in his ears more sweet than yours, And if yours are not sweeter and wilder and better.
Sing to him, say to him, here at his gate, Where the boughs of the stately elms are meeting, Some one hath lingered to meditate,
And send him unseen this friendly greeting;
That many another hath done the same, Though not by a sound was the silence broken; The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
Blue Heron Facts
Scientific Name -Ardea herodias (pronounced ARE-dee-ah her-ODE-ih-as)
Great blue herons are between 38 and 54 inches in length (Hancock and Kushlan 1984). Males are slightly larger than females (Terres 1980). They have a wingspread of up to 6 feet (Peterson 1960) and weigh between 5 and 8 pounds (Palmer 1962).
Great blue herons eat fish, frogs, salamanders, snakes, small mammals, land insects, birds, and some plants.
Great blue herons nest together in colonies, otherwise known as a heronry, and are sensitive to the effects of human disturbances.
Little Blue Heron by John James Audubon
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