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How Google indexes content from your web directory
By: Martin Lemieux
In a fluke, I was able to notice something about the way Google indexes
content from web directories. Excluding your template, the most important
line of code is the first title you add to your main body.
Search through Google and see for yourself!
Try searching for "something" in "yourcity","province/state"
and look for a web business directory that you recognize. Once you find
a directory, take a good look at the description of that particular listing
(not the title). It may be a good idea to write it down. Once complete,
click on the "cache" of that page within Google to highlight
the content and view the web directory page.
9 out of 10 times the description of your website listing within Google
is partly taken from the first line of code you have within your main
body of content (excluding your header, footer, & sidebar). You will
notice that this only applies for a web directory. Any personal or business
related website gets indexed differently. If you take a look at the Google
directory, we find the same thing: Take a look here: http://www.google.com/dirhp?hl=en
Browse to any sub-category and look at the first line of text. You will
find that the title within the main body of content before anything else,
is within an H1 tag.
H1 tags & H2 tags are nothing new to the development community but,
there may still be many directories online that can increase their search
engine rankings by changing a few things.
Here's an example we see very often online; (I am also guilty of this)
You have just developed an impressive web directory and you are very
proud of your creation. In the process of organizing your massive directory
you were faced with a problem on how to allow people to browse your website
and how to let search engines browse through your categories with ease.
So with that in mind, you create the "alphabetical solution".
THE ALPHABETICAL SOLUTION IS THIS:
Search Categories By Alphabetical Order:
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z
The problem with this alphabetical solution (I am also guilty as charged)
is that we tend to add this development solution to the top of our page
so that our visitors and possibly search engines can find these extra
categories easily. << This is probably hurting your results in many
ways.
1) Your alphabetical solution is probably necessary but instead, you
should add it a little lower below some more important page specific content.
2) No matter where you add your ABC's, search engines will find them
anyway.
3) You don't want 10,000 pages to be indexed with a description that
goes... abcdefg...
The Solution:
If you own a directory and you are faced with this problem, let's get
our development hats on and switch a couple of things around. Try adding
the main "topic" description to the top of your main body of
content and create this description within one of these tags: H1,H2,H3,H4,
etc.
2nd: Once you have your main title description, try adding more related
content to that specific page within "bold tags" BEFORE you
add your alphabetical solution. At least this way, when search engines
browse through your massive web directory, they do not leave thinking
that you like singing the alphabets.
One Last Thing:
If you are seriously targeting specific local markets on the web, try
adding the city, province/state, & country! Being in Canada, we are
faced with many brick walls when it comes to promoting certain cities.
Perfect example of this is my home town of "Hamilton, Ontario, Canada".
If you don't promote this city properly, you might actually be targeting
people from "Hamilton, Ontario, California" ! ! ! Did you say
ouch??? As you can see, this can be easily mistaken by many visitors coming
to your web directory and probably won't help your conversion rate whatsoever.
Making sure that you target the right industries and the right locations
could be crucial for the success of your web directory.
I hope this article helps you out!
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