How to Make Your Unit 5 Hosted Pages Searchable

What is "searchable"?

"Searchable" refers to pages that have been built in such a way as to facilitate search engine efforts to catalog and categorize them.

Every page is, technically, searchable as is.  However, you might want to consider adding Meta Tags to your page.  Meta Tags help search engines in figuring out what the page is about; pages without Meta Tags will get lower search engine scores in a given category than those with them.

Pages and sites that are not searchable usually receive less use and traffic.

How do I add a search box to my page?

Simple! This is done by the inclusion of a small FORM that takes input and queries a CGI script hosted on our servers.  This snippet of code, in it's MOST BASIC form, is below.

Here is an example of the search box from the district site.  You too can customize the look of the code to match your website, including using custom buttons and graphics.

Here is the HTML code for the above search box example.