For the administration mainly, this time.

I notice you include London and the Cotswolds separately in the site description. As a Yorkshireman [naturalised] or as a Devonian [by birth] I think that merits a few question marks!

Since London and Cotswolds are covered by England anyway, I think you should replace them. Technically your description dosn't include the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands - but I think they come more naturally here than in the Rest of Europe.

This is meant to be quite light-hearted but, more seriously, residents of these islands often are pretty sensitive about their status.

David, I don't understand your post. What section or page are you referring to? Can you post a link?

Are you referring to this paragraph on the Slow Travel UK & Ireland home page?

>>Find the information you need to find and book a vacation rental (holiday rental) in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Ireland. Find a cottage in the Cotswolds, a house in the West Country, an apartment in London - everything you need to make your decision is here.<<

Or do you mean the description metatag on that page?

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For either of these, welcome to the concept of keywords. I try to put in the words someone will google - England, Britian, London, etc. Also I put in the words for things we have information about. We have pages about the Cotswolds, so I include it, but not about the Isle of Man, so I don't include it. If I had a bunch of pages on the Isle of Man, it would be in that list.

All of the United Kingdom and Ireland is in that one section.

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Okay, now I see what you are talking about (but thought I would leave the above because that also applies. You mean the description on the main forums page (see attachment).

Again, the same explanation. For each country, I list the country then a dash, then the most popular cities and/or regions. Keywords for someone search on Google for travel message boards. The "..." means that there are regions I have not listed.

Look at the Italy one:
Italy
Traveling in Italy - Rome, Florence, Venice, Tuscany, Umbria ...

There is more to Italy than these places, but these are the most popular. All of Italy is discussed in the Italy forum as All of the UK and Ireland is discussed in the UK & Ireland forum.

My choice of cities/regions may not be politically correct, but they are perhaps "keyword correct".

OK Pauline, as I said it's no big deal for me and obviously you aren't being pursued by angry islanders!
best wishes
David

Dear Pauline,
Are keywords and metatags still relevant? My impression is that Google uses a patented PigeonRanking system that does a keyword end run.

Well, maybe that's not the page I wanted...oh yes, here it is. Google basically counts the number of "high quality" pages that link to a page. The page with the highest number of references to it wins. So, your page could have an astoundingly good system of keywords, metatags, titles and all, but if no one else linked to it, your page sits pretty far down the list.

This is more or less like scholarly "citation analysis:" a journal gets a high ranking if other journal articles cite its articles. That's how you know which scholarly journals are the heavy hitters.

But the loophole in citation analysis is, what about the article that everyone cites as the perfect example of rubbish?