Search Engine Indexing

I had always wondered how search engines index your site. Is it via keywords or meta tags? It used to be that you could utilize keywords in the .htm stream and the search engines would pick your site up based on how you presented the html header.

It may be on content. If you search for me or my last name, this site almost always comes up in the top ranking. I’ve owned this URL since 1998 and the site has generally provided the same information- genealogy, Habersack and Roudabush related material, and for a few years Operation Christmas Child info (when we were involved). I know that the OCC legacy is still out there for the search engines- I track my traffic.

If content drives this, I am sprinkling a few new ones to see if the search engines pick them up- so everything behind this sentence will be for the Google and Yahoo folks….

Habersack Roudabush genealogy family research, Cherry Hill Farm, Luray, VA., Stanley, VA. ,