how to ... choose a title
- The Title is a very important part of your article and deserves careful thought. Both people and search engines scan lists of article titles before they read any content. They are looking for a very concise summary of your article, based more upon keywords than sentence construction.
- The title is also used as a text link in all sorts of tight places on the website, so the shorter and more concise it is, the better.
- Date Conventions: when you include a date in your content or title that you want to be picked up by the site search engine, please use the numeric form: for decades use 1760s rather than Seventeen Sixties, and for centuries use c18th rather than 18th century. You don't have use this convention all the time, but make sure any significant date appears in numeric form at least once in your article. Also be aware of the seasons (winter, spring, summer, autumn) and abbreviate the names for the twelve months (January, February, March ... etc).
- Place names can vary alot, especially when we're dealing with very local locations. Spellings will vary - especially through history - eg Snakeholm and Snakeholme. In which case I have used the spellings given on the OS 1:25000 map of the area. The site search engine is currently not very good at picking up variant spellings. A bigger problem is that a given place may have a number of colloquial names, eg Town Lock is, or has been, also known as Top Lock and Sheepwash. Many people also refer to Riverhead as Canal Head. For guidance on the convention used by this site I have tried to compile a list synonyms for place names.
webhelp by JohnG – Fri, 2006-03-03 18:53
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