How do I customise what a Front Page Search Page looks for?

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BobR

As I undertand it, the FP text search engine searches all text within the
body of a page. How can I get it to also include the words in the "keywords"
tag of the head section in all my documents?
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Not possible.

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B

BobR

Thanks for the quick response. What would happen if I change the '
tag="BODY" ' to ' tag="HTML" ' within the '<!-- webbot ' description?
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Try it, it just may work. Generally FP will correct any changes you make to any webbot component, if
and when you re-open the page in FP.

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B

BobR

Could an alternative method of putting the keywords within a comments area
inside the body tags work, e.g.<body><!--keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, etc.
-->? Would the search engine pick these up?
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

The FP WAIS text search engine only indexes the viewable text on your page.

If you are hosted on a Windows IIS server with Index Server, then the search would include the meta
tag content as well.

Regular search engines will see all the content in your file.

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Dan

Use white font to place the words you want searchable (assuming you're using
a white background). Otherwise, whatever color your background is, make the
font that color for these searchable words.
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

That will get your site penalized by the major search engines.

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Ronx

The Keywords in the Keywords Meta tag should be in the text on the
page, so any search will pick them up.
 
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