Web indexing refers to various methods for indexing the contents of a website
or of the Internet as a whole. Individual websites or intranets may use
a back-of-the-book index, while search engines usually use keywords and
metadata to provide a more useful vocabulary for Internet or onsite
searching. With the increase in the number of periodicals that have articles
online, web indexing is also becoming important for periodical websites.
Back-of-the-book-style web indexes may be called "web site A-Z indexes". The
implication with "A-Z" is that there is an alphabetical browse view or
interface. This interface differs from that of a browse through layers of
hierarchical categories which are not necessarily alphabetical, but are also
found on some web sites. Although an A-Z index could be used to index multiple
sites, rather than the multiple pages of a single site, this is unusual.
Metadata web indexing involves assigning keywords or phrases to web pages or web
sites within a metadata tag field, so that the web page or web site can be
retrieved with a search engine that is customized to search the keywords field.
This may or may not involve using keywords restricted to a controlled
vocabulary list. This method is commonly used by search engine indexing.
See also Information architecture
Search engine indexing Search engine optimization
Site map Web navigation
Web search engine References
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Why Create an Index? Open Social Web 3.0 Directory – Compare
and review web indexing programs