 Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:45 AM
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One of our conventions in the forums may be working against us in terms of hits by web search engines. I suggest we drop the shortcut forms of Christian Science terms like CS, CSists, MBE, S&H, TMC, etc. and spell them fully.
Each time we abbreviate Christian Science, Christian Scientists, Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, The Mother Church, etc. we forfeit an opportunity for the Christian Way forums to rise higher on search engine results. I see Google, Yahoo, and MSN scanning our forums all the time (Who’s On), but they don't include us as much in Christian Science related search results because their robots don't see the right words in the content.
Once upon a long time ago we could have improved results by just adding keywords to the web page metadata (geek stuff too boring for ordinary mortals), but the search engines rarely use that data any more. Instead they look for keywords in the text of the page. They want to include pages that actually discuss the topics they classify.
It may appear to be an artificial, contrived method of increasing our visibility, but we legitimately discuss these topics. We shouldn't keep our lights hidden under the basket of shortcuts.
Do Go Be Man
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Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 7:18 AM
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| This site has helped me so much. If it will help others find it, I will be more than happy to spell out each word thousands of times! From now on I will definately spell out each word and you have my permission to correct any abbreviation that I forget to spell out of Christian Science, Christian Scientists, The Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy, Malicious Animal Magnetism, Aggressive Mental Suggestion, Mortal Mind, or whatever terms you deem necessay to be caught in a search! Great point. I never would have even thought of the consequences.
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Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:19 AM
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| I'm no internet geek, but would I be wrong to say it is only necessary to spell out the terms one time per post? It would seem that would be all that is required to flag it for the search engines. zoarean
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