| In a fluke, I was able to notice something about the | | | | body of content before anything else, is within an H1 |
| way Google indexes content from web directories. | | | | tag. |
| Excluding your template, the most important line of | | | | H1 tags & H2 tags are nothing new to the |
| code is the first title you add to your main body. | | | | development community but, there may still be many |
| | | | directories online that can increase their search engine |
| Search through Google and see for yourself! | | | | rankings by changing a few things. |
| Try searching for "something" in "yourcity","province | | | | Here's an example we see very often online; (I am |
| state" and look for a web business directory that | | | | also guilty of this) |
| you recognize. Once you find a directory, take a | | | | You have just developed an impressive web |
| good look at the description of that particular listing | | | | directory and you are very proud of your creation. In |
| (not the title). It may be a good idea to write it | | | | the process of organizing your massive directory you |
| down. Once complete, click on the "cache" of that | | | | were faced with a problem on how to allow people |
| page within Google to highlight the content and view | | | | to browse your website and how to let search |
| the web directory page. | | | | engines browse through your categories with ease. |
| 9 out of 10 times the description of your website | | | | So with that in mind, you create the "alphabetical |
| listing within Google is partly taken from the first line | | | | solution". |
| of code you have within your main body of content | | | | THE ALPHABETICAL SOLUTION IS THIS: |
| (excluding your header, footer, & sidebar). You will | | | | Search Categories By Alphabetical Order: |
| notice that this only applies for a web directory. Any | | | | 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 |
| personal or business related website gets indexed | | | | The problem with this alphabetical solution (I am also |
| differently. If you take a look at the Google | | | | guilty as charged) is that we tend to add this |
| directory, we find the same thing: Take a look here: | | | | development solution to the top of our page so that |
| Browse to any sub-category and look at the first line | | | | our visitors and possibly search engines can find |
| of text. You will find that the title within the main | | | | these extra categories easily. |