Helping Search Engines Index Your Documents

I have business articles scattered all over the Internet. Sometimes they have links to other articles or back to the main site, and sometimes they don't.

Hey, if anyone wants anything, just ask, right? Now how do I pass this kind of comment off to the search engines?

If you find search engines have linked to page 5 of your tutorial, you can actually tell the search engine that this is part of a collection of documents. Then you can tell the search engine where to find the start of the collection. Here is how you do it:

In the following example, we tell search engines where to find the front page of a collection of documents.

             <HEAD>
             <TITLE>Reference manual -- Page 5</TITLE>
             <LINK rel="Start" title="The first page of the manual"
                   type="text/html"
                   href="http://someplace.com/manual/start.html">

             </HEAD>

So...OK, but you also have special pages set aside as a printable version of your tutorial.

In the following example, we tell search engines where to find the printed version of a manual.

             <HEAD>
             <TITLE>Reference manual</TITLE>

             <LINK media="print" title="The manual in postscript"
                   type="application/postscript"
                   rel="alternate"
                   href="http://someplace.com/manual/postscript.ps">
             </HEAD>

That was painless, wasn't it?

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