Meta Tags

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Missy Krayushkina

I built a webpage for my parents, it was definitely a
trial and error process with Frontpage and Yahoo!. Now
I'm trying to figure out these Meta Tags and how they work
(as far as search engine rankings, etc.). Can anyone
possibly offer a source (business / website / etc..) that
could take a look at my pages, make sure my meta tags are
accurate, and even offer suggestions for making them even
more efficient? I feel like the hard part is over
(building the site), but I realize without good tags and
good search ratings, it is all irrelevant.

I would genuinely appreciate any feedback you can share.

Thank you,
Missy
 
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Murray

The hard part is just beginning.

Realize that you can put anything you want into meta tags, even words that
have no relation to the content on the page. SE ranking will mostly ignore
the contents of your meta tags in favor of the index they build by
"inverting" the text on your page itself. The take home lesson is that a
page without good content (and without good use of semantic markup, e.g.,
<title>, <h1>, etc.) will usually not rank well regardless of what you put
into your metatags.

You can read about such things here -

http://spider-food.net/
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.dreamweaverresources.com/seo/
 
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Jon Spivey

Hi,
Murray's advice is spot on - what counts is the page content and decent
markup eg <h1>, <h2> good title etc. The only meta tag you need is the
description as this is what will show up under your page title in search
results. Your page should look something like this
<head>
<title>Your Parents</title>
<meta name="description" content="Your parents - about 10 words gving a good
reason to visit this page">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Your Parents</h1>
<p>Text about your parents.....
etc
 
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Mike Mueller

Meta Tags
Have often been misusd any are no longer a primary tool used
by the search engines. If you are going to use them, you
would want them to match the page- if you use the 'keywords'
tag, you would want to make sure the keywords are actually
used on the page more than once. The description type tags
are used by some search engines to provide the descriptions
that the search engines use. The most import thing to use in
your header is the title though.



Missy Krayushkina wrote:
: I built a webpage for my parents, it was definitely a
: trial and error process with Frontpage and Yahoo!. Now
: I'm trying to figure out these Meta Tags and how they work
: (as far as search engine rankings, etc.). Can anyone
: possibly offer a source (business / website / etc..) that
: could take a look at my pages, make sure my meta tags are
: accurate, and even offer suggestions for making them even
: more efficient? I feel like the hard part is over
: (building the site), but I realize without good tags and
: good search ratings, it is all irrelevant.
:
: I would genuinely appreciate any feedback you can share.
:
: Thank you,
: Missy
 
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Missy K.

Muray,
Thank you (and John and Michael) SO MUCH! I guess I still have lots to
learn, but sincerely appreciate all of your help!

This is great advice and I will revisit my pages to make sure my content is
good. :)

Thank You all again...

Missy Krayushkina
 
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Murray

You're welcome, Missy!

--
Murray
============

Missy K. said:
Muray,
Thank you (and John and Michael) SO MUCH! I guess I still have lots to
learn, but sincerely appreciate all of your help!

This is great advice and I will revisit my pages to make sure my content
is
good. :)

Thank You all again...

Missy Krayushkina
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p c

Is it a personal web site or a commercial web site? If it is a personal
site don't worry about the meta tags.

If you want to score high on search engines for certin searches, then
pay attention to met tags.

Hint: do a goolge searxch for "HTML meta tags"
 

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