meta tags

D

Dennis

Can anyone tell me if the following is in the proper format. I'm trying to
get better listing on search engines and Front Page doesn't give any
information on meta titles or meta descriptions. After looking at the source
from other sites I've come up with text below. Also, does it matter if I use
this same info for all of my pages? Finally, comments on this site
appreciated: www.just4funphotos.com

Thanks,



<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

<meta name="keywords" content="Just 4 Fun Photos, Photography, Pictures,
Belton, Just 4 Fun, Raymore, Peculiar, Cass County, Events, Just For Fun
Photos, Belton, Group Events, Reunion, Parade, Restaurant, Community Days,
Belton Mo, Car Show, Farmers Market, Family Pictures, Just For Fun, Photos,
Main Street Belton">

<meta name="description" content= "Welcome to Just 4 Fun Photos. You have
the fun, we'll take the photo's! We are event photographers in Belton,
Missouri.

<meta name=" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" ProgId">

<title>Just 4 Fun Photos at just4funphotos.com</title>

<!-- no cache headers -->





<link rel="stylesheet" href="default.css" type="text/css" />

</head>
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Each page should have a unique title, description and keyword that match the content of the page it
is on. Search engines don't really use keywords to index your site any longer, however if used, some
may check to see if the keywords used match the page content, and if not then penalize you as
spamming the search engine.
--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.Ecom-Data.com
==============================================
 
R

Ronx

In addition to Thomas' remarks, it may be better to place your meta tags
in the order:

<head>
<title>Unique for each page</title>
<meta name="description" contents="Unique description of the page this
tag is on" />
<meta name="keywords" contents="keywords that are in the visible content
of the page" />

<!-- other meta tags follow above -->

</head>

--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
 
P

P@tty Ayers

Dennis said:
Can anyone tell me if the following is in the proper format. I'm trying to
get better listing on search engines and Front Page doesn't give any
information on meta titles or meta descriptions. After looking at the
source from other sites I've come up with text below. Also, does it matter
if I use this same info for all of my pages? Finally, comments on this
site appreciated: www.just4funphotos.com
Click to expand...


In addition to Thomas' and Ronx' advice, just wanted to add that, these
days, meta tags are unimportant in optimizing a page for search engine
placement. They probably won't hurt (unless done really badly), but won't
likely have much effect. Much more effective are:

-- Placing text on the page which uses the important keywords a number of
times
-- Having incoming links from other well-ranked web sites
 
M

Mike Mueller

In addition to Thomas', Ronx's, and Patty's comments, I will tell you that
the description is a good thing, as many a search engine will display that
text on the SERP

If you use keywords; be gentle on their usage, and make sure they are in
your content
 
D

Dennis

WoW! Thanks everybody!!!

Dennis



Mike Mueller said:
In addition to Thomas', Ronx's, and Patty's comments, I will tell you that
the description is a good thing, as many a search engine will display that
text on the SERP

If you use keywords; be gentle on their usage, and make sure they are in
your content
Click to expand...
 
P

P@tty Ayers

But be aware that <meta name="title" content="My Title"> is not the same
thing as the HTML element <title>. It's the HTML <title> which is shown in
Favorites and other places, and more importantly, it's that element which
the search engines pay attention to.
 
D

Dennis

Sorry if this is a duplicate. My other post didn't show up? Thanks for your
continued input. Regarding the title content you referenced, where would
that go in the code below? Also my original html code had this additional
wording, where does it belong or is it even necessary?
Thanks again!!!

additional wording:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

where does title content belong?
<head>
<title>Unique for each page</title>
<meta name="description" contents="Unique description of the page this
tag is on" />
<meta name="keywords" contents="keywords that are in the visible content
of the page" />

<!-- other meta tags follow above -->

</head>
 
P

P@tty Ayers

Hi Dennis,

As I understand it, the order of meta tags is not important. It's always
best for the search engine spider to get to some keywords as soon as
possible as it reads down through your code, but a line or two isn't going
to matter much.

This tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> identifies
that the page is written in English. It isn't necessary, but is generally a
good idea to include.

This tag: <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
identifies that the site was built with FrontPage 4.0, and isn't necessary,
but won't hurt anything, either.

The <title> tag can be anywhere within the "head" section of the document -
in other words, between <head> and </head>. This is the one I would suggest
that you pack with keywords as much as is reasonable without making it look
like nonsense. I have seen search engines respond quite well to this.

As Mike pointed out, the meta description is definitely useful; put in it
the words you'd like to have displayed when your site comes up in search
engine results.

As pretty much everybody seems to agree, meta keywords have little or no
importance to search engines these days. It won't hurt to include them, but
make sure there are only a few (5-10 words), and that they are 100% relevant
to the actual content of the page.

Having said all of that: as far as getting well listed in the search
engines, all of this is secondary. More important is having keyword-rich
text content on the page itself, and having a lot of incoming links (sites
which link TO your site).

Hope that helps.
 
D

Dennis

Thanks SO much!
Dennis


P@tty Ayers said:
Hi Dennis,

As I understand it, the order of meta tags is not important. It's always
best for the search engine spider to get to some keywords as soon as
possible as it reads down through your code, but a line or two isn't going
to matter much.

This tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> identifies
that the page is written in English. It isn't necessary, but is generally
a good idea to include.

This tag: <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
identifies that the site was built with FrontPage 4.0, and isn't
necessary, but won't hurt anything, either.

The <title> tag can be anywhere within the "head" section of the
document - in other words, between <head> and </head>. This is the one I
would suggest that you pack with keywords as much as is reasonable without
making it look like nonsense. I have seen search engines respond quite
well to this.

As Mike pointed out, the meta description is definitely useful; put in it
the words you'd like to have displayed when your site comes up in search
engine results.

As pretty much everybody seems to agree, meta keywords have little or no
importance to search engines these days. It won't hurt to include them,
but make sure there are only a few (5-10 words), and that they are 100%
relevant to the actual content of the page.

Having said all of that: as far as getting well listed in the search
engines, all of this is secondary. More important is having keyword-rich
text content on the page itself, and having a lot of incoming links (sites
which link TO your site).

Hope that helps.
Click to expand...
 
J

Joe Rohn

The <title> tag can be anywhere within the "head" section of the
document - in other words, between <head> and </head>. This is the one I
would suggest that you pack with keywords as much as is reasonable without
making it look like nonsense. I have seen search engines respond quite
well to this.
Click to expand...

Packing might best be limited to around 10 or less words and probably less
than 65 characters. While it isn't a hard rule...anything more than that
will probably be truncated and so no advantage there. If you need something
longer do it in an <h1> at the top of your page in visible text.

--
Joe
Microsoft MVP FrontPage

Expression and FrontPage Web Forums:
http://www.timeforweb.com/frontpage/forum/default.asp+
 
P

P@tty Ayers

Joe Rohn said:
Packing might best be limited to around 10 or less words and probably less
than 65 characters.
Click to expand...


Yup, sounds just about right, 7 to 10 words.
 

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