[svlug] Making Sought After Linux Web Pages

Javilk javilk at meg.mall-net.com
Thu Jun 25 23:25:59 PDT 1998 

    I think we should flood the search engines with pro-linux web pages,
pages that really tell the world why WE like Linux, and tell it in our own
words.

    Here are some of the more popular words that were used in queries on
the world wide web as of last week.  These words score high from week to
week, warez is not a fluke.  I assume that most of them, particularly
warez, are used by teenagers and other impressionable and explorative
people who have a good chance of becoming Linux users.  (This as opposed
to older brain dead mainframe MIS managers using NT to estimate the number
of boxes of printout paper they need to buy next quarter...) 

(Note the high value for mp3, warez, and cheats.)


Popularity         % of    #pages     "value" as 
     word          queries  on web   queries * (queries/pages)

#4    free          1.4283  34934392   0.49871416 
#11   mp3           0.6153    557400   5.79979189 
#20   download      0.4616  13066186   0.13927561 
#21   where         0.4483  21225085   0.08085244 
#22   web           0.4370  68238625   0.02389745 
#26   warez         0.4137    302150   4.83760053 
#27   software      0.4058  34756083   0.04047050 
#31   codes         0.3624   2791410   0.40176148 
#35   cheats        0.3148   1003860   0.84314546 
#38   game          0.3001  11114010   0.06920355 
#39   internet      0.2950  57835847   0.01284746 
#40   computer      0.2939  31808492   0.02319761 
#42   stories       0.2854   6380920   0.10900560 
#43   online        0.2806  41906134   0.01604538 
#50   sale          0.2584   8585219   0.06639609 
#65   files         0.2258  12181820   0.03575820 
#66   roms          0.2238   1024790   0.41736941 
#114  crack         0.1684    430250   0.56261243 

So, our web pages should use those terms in the meta tags.  What's a meta
tag?  That's a tag that tells the search engines what to file your page
under.  Sample meta tags (actually, the whole top of the page,) are below:

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Free Linux Warez you can easily download</TITLE>
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Download free linux warez,
why I like Linux, and hate windows">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="free, mp3, download,
where, web, warez, software, codes, cheats,
game, internet, computer, stories, online, files, sale, roms
crack, window, windows, 
">
</HEAD>
<BODY>

  And add some of your own keywords and comments.  
  Use some of those keywords in your header lines too!  (A header line is
one that has <H1> this is a header </H1> tags around it

   Note, do not use trademarks in your meta tags.   People have been sued
over that.

  Include plenty of links to Linux archives, magazines, and vendors. 

  Then submit those pages to all the search engines you can get.  Most
engines, or at least the primary engines like Alta-Vista, have their own
submission forms that you can use for free. 

     If you need help with your web pages, let me know.  HTML is simple,
and you can learn it in a few hours.  Maybe even a few minutes!  Just look
at other people's web pages using the display source option, and copy 
the way they use HTML tags.


- javilk at mall-net.com ---------------------------
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