At 15:06 07-07-00 cdt, you wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Steve Barr wrote:
>> Put up as much good content as you can to get search hits.

>This is part of the problem that nobody's really addressed... all of the
>site's content is user-generated.  I don't want to have to carry content
>unrelated to the core business to attract users.  Ideally, what I need is
>to jumpstart the user-generated content to make sure there *is* content
>when the first user shows up.  I'll start this by stealing the event
>schedules for the (few) local game stores and posting those.  I'll
>actively solicit content from the gamers and game stores that I
>know.  Hopefully that'll be enough to get things jumpstarted. 

  If you do not want to host information from other gamers (because of the
time needed in upkeep, legal issues etc.), but you _do_ want relevant
content, all the content will have to come through you. I do not know how
much time you plan to devote to your project, but I imagine that this would
be a full-time job!

  Obviously, you want content that will get you as a hit on a relevant
search in a search engine. This could quite easily be achieved via a
META-description -- virtually all search engines index these with a lot of
weight. If you put "Wichita", "gaming" and other terms such as RPG,
roleplaying game and stuff like that in the META-keywords tag, your site
will probably pop up if a search is done on a gaming-related term _and_
Wichita.
  AltaVista has some documents about this on their help-pages. Because they
are perceived as the biggest engine, they set the de facto standard. Use
their stuff and all the other search engines will know how to deal with it.

Hein


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