Guest guest Posted November 30, 2002 Report Share Posted November 30, 2002 I'm doing a test through the search engines to see what comes up when I type in " NF2. " So far I'm only getting the old crew website at http://www.webcrossings.com/nf2crew as our website, not the new one at http://www.nf2crew.com The old webcrossings site was Adam's and Pete took us to our very own domain. I thought webcrossings closed that old one?! How can we fix it so that our new website is the one found in web searches? Jennette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2002 Report Share Posted November 30, 2002 I do not know how to specifically subscribe with search engine but will find out, unless peter wud like to volunteer! I have final exam in one week, cooking a late thankgiving dinner tmw for rod's boys, this week will be brutal. pete any pointers? strange a few months ago dogpile was giving me nf2crew.com, but not now. Jennette wrote: > I'm doing a test through the search engines to see what comes up when I > type in " NF2. " So far I'm only getting the old crew website at > http://www.webcrossings.com/nf2crew as our website, not the new one at > http://www.nf2crew.com The old webcrossings site was Adam's and Pete > took us to our very own domain. I thought webcrossings closed that old > one?! How can we fix it so that our new website is the one found in > web searches? > > Jennette > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 1, 2002 Report Share Posted December 1, 2002 Hey Jennette and our Most Excellent WebMasters (many thanks all around--you're all deeply appreciated!), I kind of wonder if webcrossings or the family left the webcrossings site up as a tribute to Adam. My memory is failing me on the specifics, but I'm sure Pete will chime in before too long. I can't remember if access or uncertainty in the stability of the domain were in question when Pete switched over. We should be able to get a prominent link to the new site on the old one somehow, if the old one's still being supported, right? I'm not much help in that question, but turning attention to get the new one popping up higher on the various search engines... different ones use different searching techniques, but it would be a really good idea to get a title in the HTML code (that's a biggie!) as well as maybe including some META tags. Here's the 10 second addition of HTML code: <HEAD> <TITLE>NF2 Crew Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Support Group</TITLE> <META name= " description " content= " Brief, but informative description of us! " > <META name= " keywords " content= " keywords that people would probably use to search for us, with most important ones listed first " > </HEAD> I lifted the basis of this from the following webpage that goes into more depth and with informative links for all kinds of stuff related to making your website more likely to be found by the people looking for it (even if they don't yet realize it exists). http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html within that: http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/tips.html There's more buried in there about submitting pages to various search engines... (I haven't looked at this stuff with any rigor at all (no courses...), and only passed upon it briefly several years ago when I was playing around with my homepage. The site I used to create mine and register with engines is no longer active, but I guess meta tags are still used widely and other pages/registration sites have been created since then.) To round things out, here's the link to a page that generates meta tags for you: http://www.siteannounce.com/tools/meta-tag-generator/ Thinking of you all, and all the people that " Still Haven't Found " what they're looking for.... Wishing everyone Beautiful Days! Hugs, > Jennette wrote: > > > I'm doing a test through the search engines to see what comes up when I > > type in " NF2. " So far I'm only getting the old crew website at > > http://www.webcrossings.com/nf2crew as our website, not the new one at > > http://www.nf2crew.com The old webcrossings site was Adam's and Pete > > took us to our very own domain. I thought webcrossings closed that old > > one?! How can we fix it so that our new website is the one found in > > web searches? > > > > Jennette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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