Hour23.Helping People Find Your Web Pages

Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages

Your web pages are ultimately only as useful as they are accessibleif no one can find your pages, your hard work coding them will be for naught. The HTML tags and techniques you'll discover in this hour won't make any visible difference in your web pages, which may come as a surprise. However, they are extremely important in that they will help make your web pages much more visible to your intended audience. For most web authors, this may be the easiestbut most importanthour in the book. You'll learn how to make links to your pages appear at all the major Internet search sites whenever someone searches for words related to your topic or company. There are no magic secrets that guarantee you'll be at the top of every search list, but there are many reliable and effective techniques you can employ to make sure that your site is as easy to find as possible.

In addition to revealing some tricks to improve the "searchability" of your pages, this hour also shows you how to make one page automatically load another, how to forward visitors to pages that have moved, and how to document a page's full Internet address.