General Guide Lines for Faculty Members for Making KFUPM Web Site Visible

General Guide lines for faculty members in designing personal web pages and making KFUPM web site visible and improve its ranking:

Put KFUPM URL everywhere:

These days URL is as important as our telephone number. Make sure people know where to find our website is online by including URL on:

1. Business cards, letterhead, envelopes, mailing labels 2. Any document issued from KFUPM including attachments and research related resources. 3. Advertising, press releases, brochures. 4. Not ready yet to reprint your stationery? Print small, coordinating labels that feature your online address and copy inviting people to visit. Stick them on outgoing envelopes, on seminar folders, on the backs of your business cards and more.

5. Your EMAIL signature should include the URL of KFUPM website e.g. Tel: +966-3-8601549 Fax: +966-3-860-2340 KFUPM web- http://www.kfupm.edu.sa My web: http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/math/sdkhan

General Guide lines for creating faculty web pages which are Google friendly:

1. Organize your web folder into a set of folders e.g. o Research o Projects o Teaching o Employment Keep all possible documents in these folders e.g. pre-print version of articles, project proposal and reports, exams and quizzes, technical reports etc. These documents may be PDF,DOC, PS,PPT. Use links at proper places to these documents. 2. Avoid using too many pictures – it affects speed and people get upset while accessing from out side 3. Make pages content rich – people do not have time for fancy things 4. Your starting page may have your picture, name, rank and contact information etc. 5. Items like o research articles – provide link to pre-print or link to the publisher where it can be found. o other teaching material – provide link to the material o More from Google sit as given below:

Here are a few tips on creating Google-friendly pages (Taken from Google Site):

1. Always Include Relevant Content - Make sure that the content on each of your pages is relevant to your site. Many sites have various resources on a number of different topics. This is fine, as long as the overall theme for your Web site is solid. I would also suggest that you organize your related content into individual directories. Some businesses find it beneficial to organize each sub-theme of their site into a separate domain so they can cross-link the domains. If you do this, make sure you have links from other sites as well. 2. Avoid Duplicate Content - Create each page with unique content. If you are targeting different search engines for the same keyword, then you may find that you have some very similar content between certain pages. If this is the case, you can always create a robot.txt file to tell each search engine crawler not to index a page or directory that was created for another search engine. 3. Avoid Keyword Stuffing - Creating pages that excessively repeat your keyword phrase is definitely not a good idea. This almost always will throw up a red flag to the search engine and is one of the most common forms of "spamming." How many keywords are too many? See WebPosition's Page Critic for up to date, specific recommendations regarding how many words and keywords are recommended in each area of your page. 4. Design Good Looking Pages - Although Google cannot tell if your page is aesthetically pleasing, it is recommended that you create pages that look good and fit the theme of your Web site. This will definitely increase the click through rate from the arrival page to the rest of your Web site. 5. Avoid Using Hidden Image Links - Many site owners think they can fool Google by including transparent 1x1 pixel image links on their home page that point to their optimized pages. These are very small images contained in a hyperlink that are not visible to the naked eye. This can get your page dropped from Google's index. 6. Always Include Relevant Content - Make sure that the content on each of your pages is relevant to your site. Many sites have various resources on a number of different topics. This is fine, as long as the overall theme for your Web site is solid. I would also suggest that you organize your related content into individual directories. Some businesses find it beneficial to organize each sub-theme of their site into a separate domain so they can cross-link the domains. If you do this, make sure you have links from other sites as well. 7. Avoid Duplicate Content - Create each page with unique content. If you are targeting different search engines for the same keyword, then you may find that you have some very similar content between certain pages. If this is the case, you can always create a robot.txt file to tell each search engine crawler not to index a page or directory that was created for another search engine. 8. Avoid Keyword Stuffing - Creating pages that excessively repeat your keyword phrase is definitely not a good idea. This almost always will throw up a red flag to the search engine and is one of the most common forms of "spamming." How many keywords are too many? See WebPosition's Page Critic for up to date, specific recommendations regarding how many words and keywords are recommended in each area of your page. 9. Design Good Looking Pages - Although Google cannot tell if your page is aesthetically pleasing, it is recommended that you create pages that look good and fit the theme of your Web site. This will definitely increase the click through rate from the arrival page to the rest of your Web site. 10. Avoid Using Hidden Image Links - Many site owners think they can fool Google by including transparent 1x1 pixel image links on their home page that point to their optimized pages. These are very small images contained in a hyperlink that are not visible to the naked eye. This can get your page dropped from Google's index. 11. Avoid using links that have the same color as the background on your page - Many site owners try to hide the links on their home page by making the text color the same as the background color of the page. As with the scenario above, this can also get your page banned from Google.

Avoiding using Javascript Redirection Techniques - A number of Web site owners have implemented the use of Javascript to redirect a user to another page while allowing Google to crawl the page that includes the Javascript code. This did work for a while, but Google eventually caught on. Other forms of redirection, like IP cloaking are also frowned upon by Google. Avoid using links that have the same color as the background on your

Your starting page may contain following items (may be less or more, it depends). The clicked link may open pages in a new window or same window or you may use frames or other menu system (Very soon these items will be posted on math web)

Biographic Personal (with full contact) Employment history Computing experience

Teaching

Teaching experience WebCT courses Web courses Grades available through WebCT

Research

Research Interests Research Projects Publications Conference attendances and Presentations Membership in Professional Societies, in Editorial Boards, in Scientific and Organizing committees, Reviewing and Theses Supervision

Services

Committee work Academic Responsibilities

Some sample pages that can be seen. Just visit these and more to get feeling:

http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/math/ahasan/ http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/math/chanane/ http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/math/maslam/ http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/math/kabbaj/

Department web administrator will help you for :

Follow up and give help within these tasks:

1. Content Creation. 2. Architectural Design. 3. Implementation. 4. Visual Design.