Web page listings

What has the company who wrote the software you used said about your
problems
As they control so much of the site contents I would suggest you should
ask them the same questions
Its a neat format but if it hides its content from web-search when folks
want it visible then its use is very limited.
There may be settings you can use within the building of your site that
makes it more visible

Don Aitken...

The problem is that TNG is a database application (a very good one, in
my opinion). There are no permanent web pages containing the data;
pages are generated dynamically in response to queries. Therefore
there is nothing for web-search to find. Many genealogical websites work
the same way, including FreeBMD and all the census sites. Not all
an acknowledgement saying that it is "created by John Cardinal's
Second Site v1.9.7"; possibly that or a similar application might meet
your needs better.

I wonder if anyone can help me please?
I have my genealogy pages published, and see that they are 'crawled'
constantly by web-searchbot. However, if I search for content which I know
to be on my site using web search, nothing is shown. Does anyone
know how I might correct this in order to share my research with as
many people as possible.

Stuart Cresswell...

You need to have on your index page a lot of words (preferably in
sentence format) that tell the robot what you want it to read. Must be
on the index page.

bottom - past the family stuff; past the counter, right to the bottom
where there is a long "paragraph" with many sentences that have the
keywords tied in. These are the phrases that the search engines produce
as results.

Also make sure each page has a name that makes sense - this is not the
same as the file name for it (In Dreamweaver it is done via "Modify/Page
properties" IIRC)

Jill...

Include the URL in places like this can help - if you let folks have a look
at it we can see if there are any obvious things to help you
- all images should have alt text
- the pages should have good content - text and images
- metatags are not as strong as they used to be but all are still useful
- links to your site are vital [this takes time and effort but there will be
plenty of places you can ask for a link for free if your site is well done
and appropriate.
- keep the pages simple
- keep the links between pages clean
If web-search has to work too hard - it will move on to somewhere else

Share the URL and let folks see if they can help you more specifically

Jeff...

Encourage others to put links to your site on their pages.

Links to a site "impresses" web-search.

Peter Goodey...

I readily admit that I know next to nothing about this but I would have
thought that not mentioning the URL in your message isn't going to help.

Hugh Watkins...

correct

I do quite well in web-search second only to the professor

but i can't blog his site if he does not tell us about it

Hugh W

John Firth...

I take it that the website has been up and running for a number of months as
you say they are 'crawled' regularly.
If this is not so it takes a couple of months at least to be shown and a bit
longer to get up the pecking order. Apologies if you already know this

Nigel Bufton...

You might add keywords in the section of your main page's html code:

Most robots will pick these up and index your page by them. What else they
index from a page is a less exact science.

wtwjgc...

Not now, they won't! Meta tags are from the past.
See this link for more detail

Hugh Watkins...

not true
web-search will use a well written meta description of a site

Hugh W

wtwjgc...

I found the easiest way to get searched it to include a "robots.txt" file in
root directory listing all pages on your site. there are plenty of places on
internet that tell you how to format it, etc.