From sbelknap@UIC.EDU Mon Dec 09 15:45:42 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: sbelknap@uic.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 9 Dec 2002 23:45:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 9305 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2002 23:45:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Dec 2002 23:45:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO larch.cc.uic.edu) (128.248.155.164) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2002 23:45:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 8024 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2002 23:45:34 -0000 Received: from webmail.cc.uic.edu (HELO webmail.uic.edu) (128.248.121.50) by larch.cc.uic.edu with SMTP; 9 Dec 2002 23:45:34 -0000 X-WebMail-UserID: sbelknap@uic.edu Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:45:16 -0600 Sender: sbelknap To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-EXP32-SerialNo: 50000146 Subject: tags Message-ID: <3E04B1D8@webmail.uic.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.62 From: sbelknap X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810567 The fact that lojban ranks at 8 or worse is not a good thing. A rationally designed web site for lojban should easily be ranked first in comparison with the moribund Loglan site with no trickery whatsoever. The google algorithm is proprietary, so we only have empiric information about what it does. See http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest21/6.htm In certain cases, the google algorithm *appears* to use the spider meta tags "content" and "description". But Robin has a point: the most important tag is the title tag. The most effective strategy would be to change the title tag to something like: Loglan: The Logical Language (lojban lo lojbo bangu) Italicize the lojban phrase. It would also be a good idea to put the word Loglan in the title tags for many of the other pages and provide links on many of these pages back to the main lojban page. I favor using Loglan, the English word for lojban, in all written communication about the language which is directed at an English audience. The words lojbo, lojban, etc. should be prominently featured on the web site. If lojban *is* Loglan, then lets reflect that in our written materials. -Steven