Improving ranking -Reply

[Nancy Webb]

Hi Charlotte,

Don't forget to include META tags in your HTML coding.  Our library has
the following tags on our index page:

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Ottawa General Hospital
Library">
 <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Evidence-based Medicine,
Library, Inter library loans, Meta Analysis">

These tags help to ensure your site is seen by the search engines.  

Another idea would be to register your site with the major search engines
like Alta Vista, Yahoo and perhaps even Achoo.

Best of luck.

Nancy Webb
Ottawa Hospital - General Site
Library
www.ogh.on.ca

> Charlotte McClamma <cmcclamma at chsd.org> 06/19/98 02:27pm >>>



> Can you help us?
>
> Our new web page is up!! And it is wonderful!! But when someone tried
to
> retrieve it using AOL, it came up on the list at #400 or something!!!
>
> Now the question is:
> How do we improve our relevancy, ranking or be among the first 10 or
so
> in any applicable retrieval?
>
> Queries have unearthed an individual who is willing, for $800, to MAKE
> our web page show up among the top 10 on Alta Vista or Yahoo for
the
> next 6 months!!
>
> New questions:
>
> 1. Is this guy on the level?
>
> 2. And if so is this a "fair" cost?
>
> 3.What other ways or techniques are there to improve our ranking or
> relevancy in a specific retrieval???
>
> (A search of Web4Lib archives did not help much)
>
> When the searcher of AOL put in "children's hospital", we barely
showed
> up. (We are a children's hospital in San Diego, but he did not use San
> Diego. He searched as if he were looking for a hospital for a child.
> We, of course, want to come out on top.)
>
> Any suggestions or imput would be truely appreciated. (help, help,
> PLEASE help) Please write to me directly. and TIA
>
> Charlotte McClamma
> Childrens, San Diego
> cmcclamma at chsd.org