Indexed By Google

I decided to spend some time last week making this blog more neatly indexable so that web searches would turn up with the most relevant results. This mostly involved putting in <meta> tags to specify which pages shouldn’t be indexed. I want the individual blog pages to be the ones that generally show up - not the archive/category pages, which would duplicate the results.

Doing a google search shows the results - you get quite a neat list of the blogs I’ve made, with all the titles obvious and the blog text showing up in the summary. The only mistake is the indexing of the rss feed - but I’ve added a robots.txt file to remove this from future indexes.

Optimizing your website to deliver the most relevant results is something website authors often don’t spend much time on. Sure, they may add tons of meta tag keywords, but this isn’t enough. It’s also important to make sure that irrelevant pages aren’t indexed (especially funtional ones such as posting/login/logout). You also want to make sure that it’s the actual text content of the page that’s indexed, and not the surrounding menus/disclaimers/copyright info. As well as reducing the revance of results, having this bumpf indexed means that it can show up in the summaries (the couple of lines which show the context of your matches).

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