Family Historian User Group

When we produce a website from FH we usually want to publish it on the web for others to share and to perhaps generate leads on our ancestors.

Good Google indexing is essential for this and one simple (though by no means foolproof) way to get a good Google result is if the metatags description directive in the head section of the page refers to something important in the page and is not the same for every page.

Does anyone know if there is any way (apart from an external stream editor) that can set metatags for each page generated to be the name of the person whose page it is ?

If not, would this make a good suggestion for the wishlist ?

Cheers,
Geoff.

ID:4664

On step 8, press the advanced button. You can then add code in to the header, and 3 places in the body section.

Thanks Jane,

Thanks for your response. Yes, I'd found that page, but unfortunately it only allows you to place the same code in the head section of every page in the website and such repetition is certain to reduce your Google rankings.

What we need is an option to automatically place the following line in the head section of each page:

Parents children and siblings of -persons_name-
where -persons_name- stands for the full name of the person whose web page it is.

This would without doubt considerably boost the Google visibility of a site.

I suspect it would be very easy to add to the existing FH code. The only way to do it at the moment as far as I can see is to use a script to run through the generated pages and add the metatags according to the person whose page it is.

Cheers,
Geoff.

Hi Geoff,

I've had my own site up now for a year or two and it is mostly generated by FH. Having looked at the head section of some of my pages I find each one does refer to the title using the full name (and spouse where appropriate)see code below:


Family of William WILSON and Isabella METCALFS




So do you think that more than this would be better? osr is this a FH version issue? I'm using version 4.1

By the way searches on google seem to work OK on my site
http://www.griceonline.co.uk?

Cheers
Chris

Hi Chris,

Sorry, you are right - confusing my metatags here. You are right the title does correctly give the name of the person. It's the description tag that stays the same for each page.

Maybe not such a problem then.

G.