diff --git a/content/news/2014/03/2014-03-28-plain-language-page-titles-more-important-than-ever.md b/content/news/2014/03/2014-03-28-plain-language-page-titles-more-important-than-ever.md index 423ced00c6..2d3f8d2bb9 100644 --- a/content/news/2014/03/2014-03-28-plain-language-page-titles-more-important-than-ever.md +++ b/content/news/2014/03/2014-03-28-plain-language-page-titles-more-important-than-ever.md @@ -21,33 +21,26 @@ Many experts now recommend even shorter page titles. Below are a couple of artic [New Title Tag Guidelines & Preview Tool](http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool) In addition to the suggestions offered in our [previous article on Achieving Good SEO]({{< ref "2013-05-31-four-steps-to-achieve-good-seo.md" >}}), here are a few specific tips for page titles: - -1. Place page titles in a - - - tag within the - - <head> +<p> +1. Place page titles in a <code><title></code> tag within the <code><head></code> .<br /> 2. There’s no magic number, but around 55 characters or less is good.<br /> 3. There’s no set syntax, but “Primary Keyword – Secondary Keyword | Brand Name” is good.</p> - <p> +<p> Below are a few articles on optimizing title tags for search engines: - </p> +</p> - <p> +<p> <a href="http://searchengineland.com/nine-best-practices-for-optimized-title-tags-111979">Nine Best Practices For Optimized < title > Tags</a> - </p> +</p> - <p> +<p> <a href="http://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag">Title Tag</a> - </p> - - <p> - <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/good-titles"> +</p> - <title> - : the most important element of a quality Web page</a></p> +<p> + <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/good-titles">Title: the most important element of a quality Web page</a> +</p> - <p> +<p> <em>If you’re interested in learning more about search, register for our Search Is the New Big Data (in-person training) on April 10.</em> - </p> +</p> diff --git a/content/news/2014/05/2014-05-19-sign-up-for-digitalgov-citizen-services-summit-friday-may-30.md b/content/news/2014/05/2014-05-19-sign-up-for-digitalgov-citizen-services-summit-friday-may-30.md index afe3ddd8ed..a858ee2b7f 100644 --- a/content/news/2014/05/2014-05-19-sign-up-for-digitalgov-citizen-services-summit-friday-may-30.md +++ b/content/news/2014/05/2014-05-19-sign-up-for-digitalgov-citizen-services-summit-friday-may-30.md @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Following an opening keynote by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) CIO, Dav * public private partnerships and * inter-agency work. -These panels will explore how agencies can integrate their [data]({{< ref "/topics/code" >}}data1/), [social media]({{< ref "/topics/social-media" >}}), [user experience]({{< ref "/topics/user-experience" >}}), [mobile development]({{< ref "/topics/mobile" >}}) and other programs in order to achieve the best improvements for citizen services. Confirmed speakers include: +These panels will explore how agencies can integrate their [data]({{< ref "/topics/code" >}}), [social media]({{< ref "/topics/social-media" >}}), [user experience]({{< ref "/topics/user-experience" >}}), [mobile development]({{< ref "/topics/mobile" >}}) and other programs in order to achieve the best improvements for citizen services. Confirmed speakers include: * Jack Bienko, Small Business Administration (SBA) * Denise Shaw, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) diff --git a/content/news/2014/06/2014-06-03-harnessing-the-power-of-many-digitalgov-summit-panels-recap.md b/content/news/2014/06/2014-06-03-harnessing-the-power-of-many-digitalgov-summit-panels-recap.md index 45a8d5b079..b9f6b8651a 100644 --- a/content/news/2014/06/2014-06-03-harnessing-the-power-of-many-digitalgov-summit-panels-recap.md +++ b/content/news/2014/06/2014-06-03-harnessing-the-power-of-many-digitalgov-summit-panels-recap.md @@ -54,5 +54,5 @@ What can we do improve the quality of inter-agency work? Grama thinks it would b Agencies can also strive to think beyond their silos, since ultimately we work for the taxpayer. If you do work for another agency, “the taxpayer benefits even if your own agency doesn’t see the direct benefit,” said Pulsifer. -What has been your experience with inter-agency work?_**Alison Lemon** is a [Knowledge Manager for the SocialGov Community](FIND?s=alison+lemon.md) and a Senior Analyst for Social Media with the **FDA’s Office of Women’s Health**._ +What has been your experience with inter-agency work?_**Alison Lemon** is a [Knowledge Manager for the SocialGov Community]({{ref "/authors/alison-lemon"}}) and a Senior Analyst for Social Media with the **FDA’s Office of Women’s Health**._ _Thanks to our special Summit blogger, Alison, who took up the Open Opportunities challenge. You can [find more opportunities to participate](http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/dsic/category/open-opportunities/)._ \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/news/2014/11/2014-11-04-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-tokens-part-ii.md b/content/news/2014/11/2014-11-04-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-tokens-part-ii.md index 61ab82a2dd..5c19a4d9d9 100644 --- a/content/news/2014/11/2014-11-04-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-tokens-part-ii.md +++ b/content/news/2014/11/2014-11-04-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-tokens-part-ii.md @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ This populates the bigram field for each index with whatever natural language fi ], "highlight": { "pre_tag": "<strong>", - "post_tag": "<\/strong>" + "post_tag": "<strong>" } } } diff --git a/content/news/2014/11/2014-11-07-welcome-to-user-experience-month.md b/content/news/2014/11/2014-11-07-welcome-to-user-experience-month.md index 4704f163ca..8120445304 100644 --- a/content/news/2014/11/2014-11-07-welcome-to-user-experience-month.md +++ b/content/news/2014/11/2014-11-07-welcome-to-user-experience-month.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ If you work at a U.S. Post Office, you interact with your customers, talk with t So, in addition to collecting good analytics (like through GSA’s free [Digital Analytics Program]({{< ref "/guides/dap/_index.md" >}} "DAP: Digital Analytics Program")), it’s crucial to understand your how your customers use your technology on a one-to-one basis. That’s why you focus on the User Experience (or UX); a product’s ease-of-use, whether it looks nice or creates any emotional friction, and if people can use it to accomplish something they want. -User Experience is closely related to [Customer Experience]({{< ref "2014-07-07-user-experience-ux-vs-customer-experience-cx-whats-the-dif.md" >}} "User Experience (UX) vs. Customer Experience (CX): What’s the Dif?"), and the [User Experience]({{< ref "digitalgov-user-experience-resources.md" >}} "DigitalGov User Experience Program") program that I manage at GSA helps: build UX teams at agencies across the federal government, them to understand their customers’ needs, and build products centered around them. +User Experience is closely related to [Customer Experience]({{< ref "2014-07-07-user-experience-ux-vs-customer-experience-cx-whats-the-dif.md" >}}), and the [User Experience]({{< ref "digitalgov-user-experience-resources.md" >}} "DigitalGov User Experience Program") program that I manage at GSA helps: build UX teams at agencies across the federal government, them to understand their customers’ needs, and build products centered around them. For this month’s UX theme, we’re hitting this topic from lots of angles: