Hello,

I finally found this Softimage site again after not being able to find it for so long.

Please consider adding metatags to the home page and all other pages (especially the home page though), so Google can index this site and include it in the list of Softimage related websites... This code may seem unimportant, but if you put this in your header, within a few months this site will be ranked much, much higher on Google when people search for Softimage forums.

The text goes into the "header" portion of the site:



Some of this is corny but it helps a lot, even though it may not seem like it. The description tag is what shows up as the text under the link in Google by default. If you don't have a description tag, Google leaves it blank or picks stuff at random, and drops you in rank.

I know this sounds like marketing crud but I'm just trying to help the site. I would like a good SI forum and right now we are split between 4 forums.

-Scott

Very good suggestion, thanks...
I'd have to look into it, so I placed it on my ever-growing "to do" list...

edit: when I "google" with a query "Softimage community" our little forum does seem to show up in second place (after the Area") and when I do the same with "Softimage forum" it also seems to show up on the first page of results. But that could all have to do with Google remembering my earlier queries...

It's normal if google is indexing the right way this community because nowadays meta tags aren't used very much by search engines... (otherwise it would be too easy)
Besides that, yes, I think too that the description tag would be a great addition to guide a little more users ;-).

Oh, a thing in my mind about this forum:
I'm used to checking users profiles (for example to search all posts by a user, or simply sending a PM), but it seems that when we are in a thread we can't click on a username, so it's not very easy to access to a profile (but when we are in a thread list we can click on a username in the right collumn). I'm right or I'm missing something ?

PS: Thank you a thousand time to keep working on this community! it's so great to have an alternative to xsibase (good but, so old and so hard to navigate )

Sorry if I misunderstand you, but when logged on you can access the profile of any poster by clicking the "profile" button in the lower left-hand corner of every post...

well, hum... sorry you're right ! ... i'm not used very much about forums, i'm always on a rush so i search in the user left box and don't found it, so, badly i've assumed that theses link wasn't here.
Thank you, have a great week-end if you're not like me (at work !)

I was searching for "softimage forums" a few weeks ago and couldn't find it at all, even though I knew this forum was around.

Google does index an entire site, but keywords and description do matter because Google weights text found at the start of the webpage higher than a few random words scattered on the page. The page title also matters. That's why I said "it may not seem like it"

Anyway, this is a nice forum, Hirazi Blue, thanks for setting it up.

Well, I am looking into it some more and I even added a description and a keyword meta tag to our "overall_header", but webtools like the metatag analyzer still do not seem to find them... I'm at all loss at the moment, will continue later. (If someone knows what I am obviously doing wrong, please feel free to enlighten me).


BTW: you can thank me for a lot of things, but not for setting up this community, that was entirely owei's "fault"...

Okay I found out what I was doing wrong earlier. This community now sports description & keywords meta tags:



There would be some room for improvement, but I don't know if it's really worth the extra effort. I do however keep an open mind to any helpful suggestions...