Meta Tag Basics Tutorial

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02-22-2005, 06:53 PM
tacoX

Although meta tags are not use by most new search engines (mainly google), several popular engines still use them! Here is a list of several important search engines. Here is an example meta tag code I would use for GFXVoid. Insert between <head> and </head>

Code:

<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="tutorials, photoshop, cinema 4d"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Great site with hundreds of tutorials"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="EN"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT="Void Network"> <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="2 days"> <META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="(C) 2004-2005 Void Network and GFXVoid.com"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="FOLLOW,INDEX">

META NAME="keywords": Keywords you want for search engines.

META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="EN": Showing that your site is in English.

META NAME="author": Showing the author of the site, usually a name or email address.

META NAME="revisit-after": Time you want bots to revist your site after to index content in their search engine.

META NAME="copyright": A short copyright statement.

META NAME="robots" CONTENT="FOLLOW,INDEX": Tells bots to follow hyperlinks and index the pages it follows.

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03-09-2005, 07:15 PM
ruhroh

Google doesn't use metatags? what do they use?
03-09-2005, 08:19 PM
tacoX

Quote:

Originally posted by ruhroh@Mar 9 2005, 07:15 PM
Google doesn't use metatags? what do they use?

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They physically read the content of the page, picking up keywords throughout the page (thats just one of hundreds of components google uses to calculate page rank)
03-10-2005, 04:26 PM
ruhroh

clever Google!

so we had better have the right words to pull in the audience we seek in the web page itself!

good information to know :)
03-12-2005, 08:07 AM
ruhroh

tacoX, I thought of a question you might have the answer to

if you have commented out text in the page, will the engine pick that up too?
03-12-2005, 01:02 PM
tacoX

Quote:

Originally posted by ruhroh@Mar 12 2005, 08:07 AM
tacoX, I thought of a question you might have the answer to

if you have commented out text in the page, will the engine pick that up too?

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What do you mean by commented? Text inside the code thats hidden from viewing you mean?
03-12-2005, 01:33 PM
ruhroh

Quote:

Originally posted by tacoX@Mar 12 2005, 02:02 PM
What do you mean by commented? Text inside the code thats hidden from viewing you mean?

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yes - will search engines still read and include that text?
03-19-2005, 11:53 PM
tacoX

It depends. I, personally, shy away from using that. I know people cheat by doing that sometimes. I'd just avoid the whole concept of that though.

Correction - google does read the description meta tag, if the content of the page is not suitable.
03-22-2005, 08:19 AM
ruhroh

yeah, you are right - I was just reading that search engines don't like tricks, and will treat your page like it's spam if it recognizes any tricks, like link farms and such.

on the submit-it web site, they explained that you need at least 200 words that help describe your pages (on each page).