Help With Meta Tags I Need A Complete Explination

[wariorpk 0]

I am making a site for my cousin, long story short I realized for it to be recongnized I need meta tags so he can show up on search engines. I have never experimented with meta tags so I need a complete explination on how to create them. Thanks alot and have fun posting.

[truefusion 3]

<META NAME="description" CONTENT=" "><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT=" ">

I think what goes in the content attribute should be obvious.

[RGPHNX 0]

Hi wariorpk,You might want to check out http://www.htmldog.com/ or http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ . Both have good info for beginners & advanced HTML including meta tag info.For the search engines basically you need the following tags for each webpage.> Title> description> keywords> Keyword phrases..others are "optional" depending on what you'r trying to accomplish with which search engines.Hope this is clearRGPHNX

[palladin 0]

Here we go:

 

<meta name="description" CONTENT="here put description">

Short desription for yopu page, showing on search engines under page title.

 

<meta name="keywords" CONTENT="="here put key words">

Keywords, if someone write somthing in search engine they looking here for compatibility.

If you make page showing how to cook cookies you can put there:

"cookies, baking, cooking, food, ...." and all words what can imagine and got somthing close to you page conent.

 

<meta name="robots" content="INDEX,NOFOLLOW">

Command for search engines:

INDEX: making index of this html document, (only starting page need this)

NOINDEX: not making index of this document (all other include to main page)

FOLLOW: index pages after links on indexed document;

NOFOLLOW: not index pages after links on indexed document;

 

<meta name="Revisit-After" content="2 days">

Command for search engines, after how many days index you page again. (if you change site title or description often, use this)

 

<meta name="author" content=" ">

Author : using in some searchengines only

 

<meta name="email" content=" ">

E-Mail : using in some searchengines only

 

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

if you leave global the page was showing not depend on user leanguage. You can put there you country id to prevent showing you site out of you countre borders

 

 

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[Dynomite 0]

Try this format for your meta tags.<meta name="description" content="" /><meta name="keywords" content="" /><meta name="Generator" content="" /><meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /><base href="" /><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

[Tyssen 0]

<meta name="description" content="" /><meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

These ones are important. Description helps formulate the description that search engines will place below your link in their results; robots tells the engine which pages to index and which pages to ignore (if you have content on your site that you don't want showing up in search results); and the http-equiv makes sure your pages are interpreted properly by browsers, so the last one is essential.

<meta name="keywords" content="" /><meta name="Generator" content="" />

You can forget these two. Search engines don't pay attention to keywords anymore and generator just tells the engine what you used to create your site which is hardly of any use to anyone.