optimising for google

I often compare source
and wrote this open email to news@individual.net

bad web design

please forward to your webmaster


www.individual.net/
does not do well in google searches


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+www.individual.net&btnG=Google+Search


Find web pages that link to www.individual.net
of about 87 linking to www.individual.net/

I have just added a couple of blogs

but your page design and content is really amateurish

viewing source shows clueless meta tags

compare with http://www.rootsweb.com/

<.title>RootsWeb.com Home Page<.TITLE>RootsWeb.com Home Page
<.META NAME="author" CONTENT="Nancy Beach">
<.META NAME="description" CONTENT="RootsWeb - the Internet's oldest and largest FREE genealogical community. An award winning genealogical resource with searchable databases, free Web space, mailing lists, message boards, and more.">
<.META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="genealogy, WorldConnect, ancestry, World Connect, GEDCOM, Free, homepages, Social Security Death Index, mailing lists, message boards, search engine, databases, Web sites, websites, archives, ancestors, geneology">
<.BASE HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/ ">
<.meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

which does very well in Google

RootsWeb.com Home PageRootsWeb - the Internet's oldest and largest
FREE genealogical community. An award winning genealogical resource
with searchable databases, free Web space, ...
www.rootsweb.com/ - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

Search Family Trees - WorldConnect Project
Social Security Death Index
More results from www.rootsweb.com »

note how google quotes the meta tag

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rootsweb&btnG=Google+Search


=000000000000

http://news.individual.net/


<.head>
<.meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<.link rel="stylesheet" href="/individual.css">
<.link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
<.title>News.Individual.NET » Welcome to News.Individual.NET
<./head>

(nb the fullstop in <. is because the wysiwyg blogger editor fails to render chevrons correctly as symbols not tags )



http://news.individual.de/
is just as bad



I have paid my 10 euros now that sunsite.dk usenet has become more restricted

(old id log on to cis berlin failed so have a new ID )

I hope my danish bank does not charge more than10 euro for making the payment


sincerely

Hugh W

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