Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I expect everyone has typed in a word or acronym to find out what it means and the first thing that's highlighted in the search results is a Google definition. An extract of text from a third party site that Google thinks is the answer to your question.
Has anyone set out on purpose to create a page on their website to be a source for Google definitions and succeeded? If so, what PR does that page have and what tips do you have for creating a definitions page.
I suspect you have to give the page a meaningful name, and set up your entries as in a dictionary.
And I suspect that the dictionaries used are manually approved. There seem to be a fairly limited number of general dictionaries, with specialized ones supplementing them, from what I can tell by doing searches in several different subject areas.
I don't get an enormous amount of traffic to that page from Google, and wouldn't expect to--most people would find the information they wanted in the definition and not need to click through.
So I'd say don't go out of your way to create a dictionary for Google. If it makes sense to create one as a resource for a site on a particular area, then do, but it's not a magic doorway to greater traffic from Google.
