Hello!

I want to make it easier for people using Google or another search engine to find my site, but I don't want the bots trampling my site and causing me to blow out my usage limits every month.

My website's name and city name are present in the header ("Heading 1" with a class name of "logo-heading") at the top of index.html and every other page, but I have the feeling that there's something else I'll need to do.

For example, if my site was called "It's Raining Dogs and Cats in Timbuktu", I'd want to get hits on these types of searches:

• It's Raining Dogs and Cats in Timbuktu
• It's Raining Dogs & Cats in Timbuktu
• 'tis Raining Dogs 'n Cats in Timbuktu
• Dogs and Cats in Timbuktu
• Dogs + Cats + Timbuktu
• Dogs + Timbuktu
• Cats + Timbuktu

...and so forth. Basically, I want to help my users find the site by typing search criteria that gets reasonably close to what my site is called.

Also, this will be a very static site, so I would also like to PREVENT the crawlers from hitting pages other than my index page and also keep them from blowing my hosting agreement usage limits out of the water in the first week of each month.

Are there any simple ways to give helpful search hints while also preventing false positives? I don't want to annoy people who really aren't trying to find me.

Thanks in advance!

Hi BIF,
You can this to the head of the pages you don't want indexed.

Then just make sure you have those words you want known for in a a heading and in the meta data.

what is the meta data

https://www.sitepoint.com/meta-tags-htm … practices/

Just as a matter of interest I add the line above.