[15812] in APO-L
Re: alpha phi omega and yahoo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryoga)
Fri Dec 13 06:07:36 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 03:05:58 -0800
Reply-To: Ryoga <mgwong@UCDAVIS.EDU>
From: Ryoga <mgwong@UCDAVIS.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199612122218.OAA26564@guilder.ucdavis.edu>
[de-lurk]
Hi, I'm Mike, one of the two webmasters from Iota Phi (University of
California at Davis). One of the many reasons why I'm excited about the
National Convention is that I'll finally get to meet many of the people
behind the pages and share info.
About two weeks ago, I had a de-briefing from some of the local
experts on the workings of search engines, and I'd like to share what I
learned (with an emphasis that I'm no expert and probably couldn't give
you a clue as to what I was exposed to).
One of the ways we can help the automated search engines is to include
<META> tags in the header of our web pages. These are comment-like
keywords which tell "search-bots" that there's some important information
about the page in the header. Examples of <META> tags are:
<META NAME = "resource-type" CONTENT = "document">
<META NAME = "distribution" CONTENT = "global">
<META NAME = "keywords" CONTENT = "some keywords to search by, delimited
by commas">
As I understand, there are ways to notify search engine providers of an
internal text file index (which you create) and/or to invite automated
robots to hit your site and index it (which can be pretty rough on your
server).
Also, I think there will be a workshop "Bringing Usability Design to
your Website" on the 29th... Anyway, I think that we'll all get a lot out
of meeting and sharing.
If you'll forgive the shameless plug, the Iota Phi web page (after being
suspended in purgatory for 7 months due to changes in the server) will
appear again in its brand-spanking new form by next week (12/18).
The URL is:
http://asucd.ucdavis.edu/organizations/greek/aphio
Brand new rendered & animated graphics! Still no functional guestbook!
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Mike Wong: mwong@cedar.ca.gov, mgwong@ucdavis.edu
"Tact is the dance of the tongue to the rhythm of another's drum"
