Integration with SoM Site

Before you begin

Before you publicize your site, you should gather some basic information which will be helpful when submitting the site to search engines and directories. This information might include:

- URL
- Name of organization
- Contact person
- Address and phone number
- Email
- Keywords
- Description- short (25 words) and long (1-2 paragraphs

SoM Navigation Resources

If the site represents a department, division, center or group within or associated with the School of Medicine, you may want to request listing in the Schools central navigation resources, such as the Departments page. Direct your request to Web Help, and tell us where you belong on the page. What group, division, department and so on up are you a part of? Or are you a multi-department or -division center?

Stanford Google search

You may want to be listed in the Stanford A-Z index. To be listed, go the "Suggest a new site" form and submit a request for listing.

How about indexing by the Stanford Google search engine? Before your site is indexed, it's a good idea to understand how indexing works, and to make sure your site is set up to make best use of the search engine. The Information for Web Site Creators page is a good place to start. Although the older UltraSeek engine will no longer be used, the older "Info for SU developers" page, has good information about browser titles and meta tags that is also relevant in Google.

The Stanford Google index (and other search engines as well) will only add your site to the index when it encounters a link or links to your site. So it's a good idea to request links to your site from the School of Medicine site maps and/or the Stanford A-Z index, as described above.

The most important factor in how your site's pages are indexed in most search engines is the browser title. Make sure each public page in your site has a unique and meaningful browser title.
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Information Resources & Technology (IRT) 
  - Stanford University School of Medicine</TITLE>
</HEAD>

You can more about browser titles and meta tags to enhance search.