I’m not an expert but I’m pretty sure search engines are looking at the content (as well as meta tags, keywords, etc which you might also want to make use of).
If you have “Dorset Guitar Society” on your page, that’s the content that the search engines are looking at. So if someone searches “Dorset Guitar Society”, your page with “Dorset Guitar Society” on it will be a match. Having a hyperlink sitting behind it is a bonus because search engines appear to like links.
Also, if people are searching “Dorset Guitar Society” they’re unlikely to be using the full URL as the search term, which is another reason for using the commonly used name in your list of links. What if the Dorset Guitar Society’s URL was https://dgsuk.com. The URL isn’t a good descriptor of the actual organization.
If you use a graphic instead I think you can name the graphic and add a description in its metadata and that is searchable. Or set alt text for the graphic too.
How you arrange it on the page depends how you want to present it to your audience. If you have lists of links within categories, you might want to have a list of categories at the top and then link to anchors on the same page to jump to the category and its detailed list of links.
If it was me, I’d use HTML text.
External hyperlink is already a separate option. You have to type in or paste the URL for each one anyway so don’t need to select the type of link, just put the whole link with http (or even better https) and Freeway will work it out.
I can’t recall if you can set a default for the target. Shouldn’t be hard to find out. Softpress has a really good user reference guide for Freeway that you can download.
https://download2.softpress.com/docs/Freeway_Reference_small.pdf
I googled your name to see if I could work out what you were trying to do with your site.
Sent from Di’s iPhone
On 31 May 2020, at 6:32 pm, Stephen Kenyon email@hidden wrote:
Thanks Diane yes that’s basically what’ve I’ve been working with, perhaps you missed the bit in my original where I asked about keeping the url on the page so that it would show up in search engines … if a link is to a graphic or a different piece of text, is the url still present in the code and therefore searchable … ? What I’m thinking is that if somebody searches for, to use your example, Dorset Guitar Society, they will also get my page, which would include links to other Guitar Societies (how did you know about me and DGS …?)
Am still stuck on whether its best to use a table, graphic items for the names (can they go in a table?) or a stack of html/graphic items down the page - bearing in mind some categories have scores of entries?
And is there a way to save a setting so each link is automatically external, http and new page…?
Stephen
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