iSpecies

[Fabian Haas]

Steve,

I think you problem is that your data come essentially from a database.
Databases are never access by the search robots.

in order to improve that you may add key words in the header of the HTML
files, e.g. many species names, colloquial expressions etc, and actively
register your website at the search engines. They have all the option to
guide them to your own page.
And ask colleagues to link your page.

That worked reasonably with my page www.earwigs-online.de
which has a steady increase of usage, though most of it is databases too.

Best
Fabian



steve Lingafelter schrieb:

>Looks like this will be a very powerful site.  Unfortunately there are
>lots of images and documents out there that aren't found by Google,
>Yahoo, etc, despite specifically sending them information on new
>websites etc. and waiting months.
>
>For example, I have a website on Images of Holotypes of Cerambycidae of
>the Smithsonian Institution [insert shameless plug here:]
>
>www.elaphidion.com
>
>with thousands of images, many of taxa that otherwise have absolutely
>no hits on any search engine.  They are only on my site, yet they are
>often overlooked by the search engines and your site.  So it seems that
>it is still necessary to have a large library of bookmarks to cover all
>the bases without overreliance on a "simplified" search tool that will
>overlook many things.
>
>Steve
>
>
>______________________
>Steven W. Lingafelter, Ph. D.
>Systematic Entomology Lab, USDA
>MRC-I68
>National Museum of Natural History
>Smithsonian Institute PO Box 37012
>Washington, DC 20013-7012
>
>Phone: 202-382-1793
>Email: slingafe at sel.barc.usda.gov
>
>
>
>
>>>>Roderic Page <r.page at BIO.GLA.AC.UK> - 11/2/05 11:23 AM >>>
>>>>
>>>>
>For fun I've created a site that searches three data sources - NCBI,
>Yahoo images, and Google Scholar for information on a taxonomic name.
>If you type in a name you get information on whether that organism has
>been sequenced (and if so, how many sequences are available), the
>first
>five images Yahoo finds on the web, and up to 10 documents from Google
>Scholar (with DOIs and links to PubMed, where available ).
>
>If you'd like to try it go to http://ispecies.org (you'll get
>forwarded
>to a machine here in Glasgow).
>
>I know there are all sorts of problems with searching on names, but
>I've found it to be fun to see just how much information is out there.
>
>Example links to try are:
>
>http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Pediculus+humanus
>http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Rhea+americana
>http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Anthonomus+grandis
>http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?
>q=Florinemestrius+pulcherrimus
>http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Agathis+australis
>http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Banksia+coccinea
>
>Please be aware that the image search can sometime produce images you
>might not want children or the faint hearted to see -- despite Yahoo
>claiming it filters adult content. You have been warned...
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>Regards
>
>Rod
>
>Professor Roderic D. M. Page
>Editor, Systematic Biology
>DEEB, IBLS
>Graham Kerr Building
>University of Glasgow
>Glasgow G12 8QP
>United Kingdom
>
>Phone:    +44 141 330 4778
>Fax:      +44 141 330 2792
>email:    r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
>web:      http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html
>reprints: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/pubs.html
>
>Subscribe to Systematic Biology through the Society of Systematic
>Biologists Website:  http://systematicbiology.org
>Search for taxon names at
>http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/portal/
>
>
>

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Dr. Fabian Haas, FRES
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