Guide Outcome: After following through and applying the knowledge and skills shared, academicians and non-academicians who have their own website, or is a webmaster of his/her own group/center/institute/personal etc can increase the number of Page Indexed to more than 2000, in order to help UTM Faculty Webometrics, UTM Webometrics and most importantly to get that very nice 5% eLPPT extra bonus marks. 

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I will be making a guide for all academicians and non-academicians in FCEE specially, as well as UTM staffs to adopt in order to increase your Page Indexed for your official faculty or university website. This guide/training will be published weekly, I hope I can do it weekly or whenever I managed to publish it, I will announce it via our social media channel. This is pretty much also related to Webometrics, which may be quite complicated to understand for us (accept those who have passion in this and also the Computer Faculty or CICT guys). Before we dive in further, lets try to understand what is Webometrics and why it is important to us.

Note:  I am not a real website guy or a computer geek tech person, but I am trying to provide this info so my fellow academicians and non-academicians can improve their website to a better quality and standard, mainly due to my capacity as the Facility Manager of FCEE. Expert in this area may question this guide. You are welcome to critic and help me improve this guide.

I am not that technical to explain what Webometric is. I suggest you to refer the definition and concept given by Wikipedia and Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. If you are still not sure what this is all about, don’t worry because what you really want and should do is to find a way, a strategy, a mechanism on how to keep on to increase your page indexed, which is basically the most imperative matter.

What is Page Indexed?

My own understanding :- It is the number of pages in your website that has been indexed by the search engine. Now that we are very much used to Google, and UTM is using Google Page Index to calculate some bonuses for our eLPPT and eLNPT (not sure if this apply). If you recall while filling up your eLPPT for 2016, bonus marks are given such as:

100 pages index and more = 1% bonus marks

250 pages index and more = 2% bonus marks

500 pages index and more  = 3% bonus marks

1000 pages index and more = 4% bonus marks

2000 pages index and more = 5% bonus marks

You can refer here (http://www.utm.my/webometrics/) for the above bonus details.  At that same link, you can also try yourself and see how many pages of your website has been indexed. Try and see now.

Done?

If yes, that’s good. Let’s move on to learn and practice how to improve and increase the number of pages indexed for your website.

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A. Practical Ways to Increase Page Indexed and Increase Presence of Your Website

Following are several methods and techniques that you can adopt.

1. Keep on adding new contents to your website. The more contents, the more page indexed.
2. Always tick one or more “Categories” for your new post.
3. Always add more than 5 “Tags” for your new post.
4. Always have at least one outbound link to a reputable website, example, UTM website or government website or google websites etc. Have maximum 3 is ok. Don’t over link it.
5. Always have some inbound links directed to your new posts. This inbound can be a link from your other previous post directed to your new post.
6. Select good keywords for your post, but this depends the content you are writing. Target 2-5 keywords. Then you can either italic, bold or underline that keywords. You can also change the colour of it.
7. You can add photo(s) if you want into the post. If you do so, it is better to rename the photo to the keywords and make it relevant to the post.

For now, I will leave you with only 7 points above. Some of you may wonder and would like to know further on it. I will elaborate further on all of the 7 points above. There are various techniques to be mastered for the above, but this will be continued soon, and I will update it in Telegram once new guide is published.

And as for now, you can start posting any news whenever you have the time, maybe once a day, or once a week, up to you. Or a clever way of creating new post is by asking your Postgrad students to help you with all the new post publication. You can ask them to write 1 post a day or 5 posts per week. Or even 10 posts a week. Up to you.

See you in Part 2.

– comments for improvement are welcome – you can email me at zakiyamani@utm.my

(Time spent writing this Part 1 guide = roughly 1 hour)