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delusion · 11-10-2005, 01:31 AM

Here is a simple guide that I found which teaches you the steps of utilising META tags, very important for SEO optimization.

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Placement
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Meta Tag Tutorial
</TITLE>
<meta name="keywords" content="meta tag, guide, tutorial">
</HEAD>

<link rev="made" href="user@domain.com">

This tag tells the search engine or curious user the email address of author of the website. It is a good idea to include this tag, especially if you sell your webmaster services to others.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

This tells the search engines and browsers the document character set, see the W3 Character Set Documentation for more information.

<meta name="keywords" content="keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3">

Use these tags to list the different keywords you would like search engines to list you for. Select relevant keywords to the content on your site. It is important to have a high keyword relevancy and a good keyword density.

<meta name="description" content="User Friendly description of your website.">

Use this meta tag to describe your website. This should be user friendly because many search engines display this text as the description of your website.

<meta name="author" content="Your Full Name">

This tag should be included so that you can claim credit for the site and as information services (like Alexa) may list this information.

<meta name="robots" content="Index, Follow">

This tag plays two parts, the first part is to tell a search engine whether or not to index the current page and the next is to tell it whether or not to follow links on the page. The possible values are: Index, NoIndex & Follow, NoFollow.

<meta name="revisit-after" content="2 Days">

This tells the Robot how long to wait before it revisits the page.

<meta name="language" content="en-uk">

This tells the search engines and browsers what language the page is in.

<meta name="rating" content="General">

This classifies the rating of your page. Possible values are; General, 14 years, Restricted, Mature.

<meta name="distribution" content="global">

This tag is optional as most webmasters want their site to be viewed worldwide. However, if your site is relevant only locally then this may be a good opportunity to use this tag.

<title>Title of page</title>

Although this is not a meta tag is should be treated with care. It should be used as an extension of the keywords of the page yet user-friendly.

You can check your current META tags at http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-...-analyzer.html

Source of this article comes from http://www.benwiggy.com/

cristobal · 11-10-2005, 11:47 AM

Humm.. informative.
But I never knew how effective is the revisit option.

If I set it to daily and my site does not change for months, will that affect me?

delusion · 11-10-2005, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by cristobal

Humm.. informative.
But I never knew how effective is the revisit option.

If I set it to daily and my site does not change for months, will that affect me?

Just set the robot option to 2days - week, the robot doesn't have to always visit your site, allow your site to change overtime and plus, the robot can take alot of bandwidth off, comes from first hand experience.

boohlick · 11-11-2005, 04:16 AM

Or if you want to permanently block that some bot you do it in your robot.txt

2e2 · 11-12-2005, 08:56 PM

it is a good job,i think it will be important for newbie

boohlick · 11-16-2005, 02:47 AM

Are optimizing a site right now?.... how long have you been optimizing it?