Comments on: Search Engine Basics – Part One, What Search Engines Are Important? http://www.doodlehaus.com/content/search-engine-basics-part-one-what-search-engines-are-important/ Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Seann Sweeney http://www.doodlehaus.com/content/search-engine-basics-part-one-what-search-engines-are-important/#comment-28 Seann Sweeney Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:01:20 +0000 http://www.bus.wisc.edu/webmaster/?p=24#comment-28 Mr. Webmaster, Can you explain "description" meta tag and "keywords" metatag. I think the keywords meta tag is the description that shows up under a search result on a search engine. Where does the "description" meta tag show up? Also, can you somehow view these meta tags when you are on a webpage itself or just when doing a search from a search engine? Sincerely, Mr. Sweeney Mr. Webmaster,

Can you explain “description” meta tag and “keywords” metatag. I think the keywords meta tag is the description that shows up under a search result on a search engine. Where does the “description” meta tag show up? Also, can you somehow view these meta tags when you are on a webpage itself or just when doing a search from a search engine?

Sincerely,

Mr. Sweeney

]]> By: Mark Anderson http://www.doodlehaus.com/content/search-engine-basics-part-one-what-search-engines-are-important/#comment-27 Mark Anderson Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:18:13 +0000 http://www.bus.wisc.edu/webmaster/?p=24#comment-27 Good question, Chris. Those statistics are for people who are referred from <strong>search engines only</strong>. We had about 350,000 page views in October. Of those page views, we received about 16,000 referrals from search engines. Your point about internal traffic is a valid one. There are many computers within Grainger Hall that have their browsers default to a specific page on the School of Business site. Any time someone fires up a browser, it counts as a page view. Perhaps this is a policy we should look at. On one hand, we don't want extra pageviews. On the other, we don't want to discount valid internal traffic. Good question, Chris. Those statistics are for people who are referred from search engines only. We had about 350,000 page views in October. Of those page views, we received about 16,000 referrals from search engines.

Your point about internal traffic is a valid one. There are many computers within Grainger Hall that have their browsers default to a specific page on the School of Business site. Any time someone fires up a browser, it counts as a page view. Perhaps this is a policy we should look at.

On one hand, we don’t want extra pageviews. On the other, we don’t want to discount valid internal traffic.

]]> By: Chris Benish http://www.doodlehaus.com/content/search-engine-basics-part-one-what-search-engines-are-important/#comment-26 Chris Benish Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:00:08 +0000 http://www.bus.wisc.edu/webmaster/?p=24#comment-26 But webmaster, your stats seem to indicate that 99.7% of our traffic comes from a search engine. Aren't there some visitors that just come here because they know about us already? Or, what about someone like me that has a page in the www.bus.wisc.edu domain set as their homepage, so I visit like a bajillion (also a math thing) times per day? Is this an example of the skewed statistics that [insert partisan talk show host] keeps warning me about? But webmaster, your stats seem to indicate that 99.7% of our traffic comes from a search engine. Aren’t there some visitors that just come here because they know about us already? Or, what about someone like me that has a page in the http://www.bus.wisc.edu domain set as their homepage, so I visit like a bajillion (also a math thing) times per day? Is this an example of the skewed statistics that [insert partisan talk show host] keeps warning me about?

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