Title and Summary
of
My Home Page

(Measures against Search Engines)

I have continued to write and upload what I wanted to write since last year. Recently I checked the search sites and found that the title and summary of my home page were bad.

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Registration to Search Site

After a home page is uploaded, the owner has to register the home page on one or more search sites so that anyone can find it out.
There are two types of search sites as follows;

• Directory type: The owner has to abide by the classification of directory prepared by the site and to apply the registration of his home page to the site. When the judge of the site allows the registration, his home page becomes searchable by following up the directory tree.
• Key word type: First the owner registers his URL (http://www. ...) to the site at first. Then the search engine of the site automatically comes to his page, gathers necessary data, and adds the data to their database. After that his page becomes searchable by using keywords.

Because my page is difficult to fit the directory type sites, I registered to the key word type sites (advice of a friend of mine.)

Search Site Goo

I searched my page using the title, "Ten years of a retired Japanese," and keywords, Switzerland, Canada, and the UK. (Of course the title is a group consisted of key words.) The result A) by the title and the result B) by the key word were obtained as follows. The following red URL of two “No.1” is mine, therefore my home page is certainly registered on this site.

A) By the title

1MyHomePage
99% http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/~n11288 2001/05/25 MyHomePage

2Programme
98% http://www.fdk-berlin.de/forum2001/programmfrset_e.html 2001/02/18 Programme

3Top Ten Changes and Continuities in Japanese Law and Society
98% http://www.law.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~luke/topten.html 2001/05/28 Home / What's New? / Meet Me / Meet My Faculty / Japanese Law Links / Feedback Top Ten Changes and Continuities in Japanese Law and Society c. Luke Nottage Associate Professor of Transnational Law, Ky...

4Xavier: Guide To The 21st-Century Missionary
98% http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/~d-mccoy/xavier/mathy.html 2000/06/25 St. Francis Xavier: Guide To The 21st-Century Missionary Francis Mathy, S.J. Translate this page to (Spanish/French/German/Italian/Portuguese) Spanish French German Italian Portuguese Heart burning with zeal Introduction Francis's

5Text of Prof. Iwao
98% http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/japan/opinion/iwao.html 2000/10/12 The New Lifestyles of Japanese Women Sumiko Iwao, Ph.D. (This is the transcript of a speech delivered in Lima, Peru in September 1996.) Today I would like to talk to you about the areas of Japanese life that are changing the most, namely those cen

B) By the keywords

1MyHomePage
99% http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/~n11288 2001/05/25 MyHomePage

Because my home page was found by using "Ten years of a retired Japanese," this search engine certainly recognized the input words as the key words. But the title written by large fonts was not reflected on the result as the title. This engine definitely recognizes the hidden title in my frame file, which is sandwiched by two tags <title> and </title>, as the title because "MyHomePage" is shown as my title in the result.

In the frames file, the file basically defines only the file names assigned to each frame and the number of frames. I had known I was able to write the hidden title, hidden keywords, and hidden summary on the frame file but I had not thought them important. Because I was frantically making the frame file, I cannot remember why I wrote such hidden title, MyHomePage.

No.2 home page using the frame file is similar to my page. No.5 home page has an effective description. This page uses normal file. The title, "Text of Prof. Iwao", is sandwiched with two tags, <title> and </title>. Her description, "The New Life-styles of Japanese Women" is tagged with <h1>...</h1>. Possibly these tags are useful to be recognized as description. In my case, I used large font for the heading but did not use such tags.

Measures

Anyway I had to improve the hidden title in my frame file. On July 23, 2001, I changed the hidden title, "MyHomePage," with "The life of a retired Japanese." Maybe writing a hidden summary and keywords on the frame file, and sandwiching the heading of the file assigned to the frame with <h1> and </h1> is desirable. I did them at the same time.

Result 1

Since then I checked the search site weekly using the new title and found the following new result on August 24, 2001.

The adopted summary was hidden one in the frame file, not the one in the assigned file. Tags, <h1> and </h1>, seem to be ineffective. And I knew the search engine
really repeats visiting my home page. This was a happy moment for me.

1 The life of a retired Japanese
http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/~n11288
I wrote about my pastimes: foreign trips (Switzerland, Canada, the UK), learning English itself, an increase in my knowledge through the learning English, and uploading my home page.

Generally there are two types of descriptions in the html (Hyper Text Markup Language) file. The one can be read by the normal- and html-mode of a browser. The other one cannot be read by the normal-mode. I attach the prefix, "hidden", to the description which normal-mode browser cannot read. Strictly speaking, the title sandwiched between two hidden tags, <title> and </title>, appears on the upper margin of the Internet Explorer. But I write this title as the hidden title here because it does not appear in the body of the page.

Result 2

In a good mood, I searched my home page on other sites using the title, "The life of a retired Japanese." They treated my title as a group of key words removing prepositions and articles. The search was done by "and" connection.

Google (1 of 117,000)

The results are as follows. The category is not suitable. Maybe it was automatically created by the computer. The hidden title and hidden summary appears after the category. Next, the heading and the part of summary written on the right side of the initial screen appears. Further, the URL, which enables the direct access to the file that contains the description of the right screen, is shown.

Category:Arts > Literature > World Literature > Japanese
(The red characters in this topic were translated from Japanese.)

The life of a retired Japanese
I wrote about my pastimes: foreign trips (Switzerland, Canada, the UK), learning English itself, an increase in my knowledge through the learning English, ...
www4.justnet.ne.jp/~n11288/ - 2k - Cache - Related pages

The life of a retired Japanese
The Life of A Retired Japanese. I write about my pastimesafter retirement: foreign trips (Switzerland ...
www4.justnet.ne.jp/~n11288/home.htm - 4k -Cache - Related pages
[Other pages in www4.justnet.ne.jp ]

When the cache is clicked, whole content of the right frame of my initial screen appears. This site maybe stores the perfect file of the right screen.

Yahoo (1 of 29,600)

Like other sites, the hidden title and hidden summary appeared as follows.

The life of a retired Japanese
I wrote about my pastimes: foreign trips (Switzerland, Canada, the UK), learning English itself, an increase in my knowledge through the learning English, ...
http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/~n11288/   [More Results From: www4.justnet.ne.jp]

When I clicked the [More Results From: www4.justnet.ne.jp], the following results were obtained.

Web Page Matches   (1 - 3 of 3)

The life of a retired Japanese
I wrote about my pastimes: foreign trips (Switzerland, Canada, the UK), learning English itself, an increase in my knowledge through the learning English, ...
http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/~n11288/ 

This is the overlapped output of the hidden title and hidden summary.
The life of a retired Japanese
The Life of A Retired Japanese. I write about my pastimes
after retirement: foreign trips (Switzerland ...
http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/~n11288/home.htm 

The content is a part of the file assigned to the right frame. The URL of the file is directly indicated too.

Do you want an ordinary life
... was fourteen years old. Every Japanese person respected her and ... prizes. At last, she
retired in spite of being ... can live a peaceful life because they have only ...
http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/~inagaku/essay/eya.htm

This is not mine. But the content includes the three keywords, Japanese, retired, and life but is not mine.

 

Yahoo Japan (1 of 430)

The hidden title and hidden summary appeared also in this site as follows.

The life of a retired Japanese
I wrote about my pastimes: foreign trips (Switzerland, Canada, the UK), learning English itself, an increase in my knowledge through the learning English, and uploading my home page.
http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/~n11288/

 

Summary

1) The above search results are summarised as follows.

Search Site	Hidden Title	Hidden Keyword	Hidden Summary	Initial Screen	Hits
Goo	Effective	Effective	Effective	Ineffective	709
Google	Effective	Unconfirmed	Effective	Effective, Stored	117,000
Yahoo	Effective	Unconfirmed	Effective	Effective, Short	29,600
Yahoo Japan	Effective	Unconfirmed	Effective	Ineffective	430

From the above Table

• The hidden title and hidden summary in the frame file is indispensable. Suitable keywords should be mounted so that anybody can easily find my page.
  
• Google and Yahoo stores a part or whole of description on my initial right screen. So I have to consider about the keywords on the file assigned to the right frame.
  
• Google is the most powerful site when I compare the number of hits and the capacity of stored data with the other sites. But when my page is searched, it is probably difficult to hit at high rank on this site.
  

2) My page appears at the top rank this time. This depends on the fact that my title contains all of the three keywords and/or three keywords are located at the closest position in the description comparing with other pages. Because I know my page well, I can get these results. Otherwise I cannot do that.

3) The next problem is how to choose the title and keywords. I have to return to the starting point: Who are the readers of my page? What can I offer them? It is the basic but difficult proposition.

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Uploaded September 7, 2001
Renamed and revised December 29, 2001
Revised July 1