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1 Comment Written by Robert on April 17, 2008 – 2:04 pm

Unlike the philosophy that if you pad your essays in creative writing class you’ll get a better grade, length here is not your friend. If your descriptions are too long, they won’t fit in the search results.

You make sure that what will actually be seen is a message that you want to get across.

Here, control is the name of the game. If you compose your own description for submission rather than waiting for Google’s spiders to index your site, you can be the one to decide exactly what appears in the search results. One option is to compose your Web site description jut the way you want it, and to submit it to the Google Directory.

The Google Directory is a style index to the contents of the Internet. With a style that is similar to Yahoo!, it is arranged by category. Most people access Google’s database of Web sites by using its well-known search page, which is also the site’s home page. To find the Directory, you first need to access the site.

Go to the home page, click More, and click Even More. When the More Google Products page appears, click

Directory under the heading Search. You can also take advantage of a simple and perhaps more practical approach to getting your Web site before the eyes of potential visitors: add your URL to the Google Directory.

You do this by accessing Google’s form for submitting a Web page URL to the directory (http://www.google.com/addurl). You have two options for adding a description to Google’s directory (or Yahoo!’s, or any other directory, for that matter). You can submit your description to Google as described in the preceding paragraph.

You can also add a description to the HTML code for your Web pages What does it mean to add your description to the HTML code? Every Web page consists of a visible set of contents (text, colors, rules, and images) that appear in a Web browser window, and the underlying markup that tells a browser how to format a page’s contents.

The underlying markup is written in a language such as HTML (HyperText Markup Language). The HTML code for a page is a text file formatted with a file extension such as .htm or .html so a browser knows that it’s a Web page file and that the contents need to be formatted accordingly.

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