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SEO - Using Meta Tags

Guest post by: Barb Hauge

Article Overview: The HTML Meta tag is not required when you're creating web pages; many web site designers don't use the tag at all. The meta tags are used by search engines to allow them to more accurately scroll your site and then index it.

SEO - Using Meta Tags

Let's say you have a home page, sometimes called the index page and register the URL with several search engines, the spiders will then 'crawl' the page and index it, hence the name index page. Each search engine does this differently so, it makes sense to ensure that your opening paragraph is carefully written to accurately reflect what your site covers because some of the search engine spiders only publish the opening paragraph.

You may be able to help with your natural search optimization by using meta tags. Not all search engines crawl meta tags, but adding them will help with the ones that do and not make a bit of difference to the search engines that don't.

The meta tags should be at the top of your index page, inside the head /head tags, just after the title /title. It follows the usual form of tags, meta name="something" content="something else" but you don't have to have a /meta at the end of the tag, the way that you do with something like strong /strong.

example of meta tags are:

meta name="robots" content="index,follow"

This HTML code tells the "robots", "spiders" to follow or crawl the other pages in your website, providing you have them linked in one form or another.

meta name="copyright" content= "Copyright (c) (the year) by (whoever or whatever)"

This code tells the search engine spiders that your web site is copyrighted, the year it was copy written and who the rights belong to.

meta name="keywords" content="your list of keywords comma separated"

This meta tag allows your website to show in natural search for appropriate, relevant keywords.

All tags must have this symbol at the beginning < and this symbol at the end >

This is just one area where you can improve your SEO ratings and natural search optimization. The most important thing to remember is to keep everything relevant to your website or you will not get the results you are looking for. To appear on the first page in the natural search of the search engines using meta tags and keywords, keep in mind they must be accurate, relevant and in no way misleading.

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Article Tags: creating web pages, html meta tag, meta tags, natural search optimization, search engines, seo, web site designers
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Related Forum Posts
Re: Website Ranking #1 in all Search Engines - To get ranking on Yahoo and Bing you need to have correct Meta Tags as proper optimization is something Yahoo and Bing prefers. Apart from that try to create backward links from Yahoo answers, Wiki answers, Associated content, Flickr. Yahoo prefers these sites and even nofollow links.
Re: SEO... - 1: Find the Best Keywords 2: Discover Your Competitors 3: Optimize Your Title 4: Optimize Your META Tags 5: Use Headings 6: Use Title and ALT Attributes 7: Nomenclatures 8: Create a Site Map Page 9: Include a robots.txt File 10: Install a sitemap.xml for Google MySQL/Oracle:
Re: Does Your Website Have a Robots.txt File? - HI Carol, Your robot file is correct; no lets work on your Page Titles & Meta Data. Do you have access to create different page titles for each page of your website? Do you have your FTP information...please do not post it here but just let me know if you have access. Jeff
Youtube Tags and fake newscasts - in addition to using Tags I also suggest using a video editing software to embed a line of text at the bottom of your video's to point to your site. I've seen some video where people make their video's look like a news release from a news channel (made up news channel). This is no different that submitting an ad in the newspaper and making it look like an article. Keep the video entertaining with some Richard Branson theatrics...
Re: How do u optimize a Blogger blog? - Hi GT, Of course there is a way and you know it, you wrote it down in your question. 1- Optimize your main blog code : Meta keywords, title, description. 2- Optimize your post - look at it as a web page. You need keywords (tags), use them in your title, first and last paragraph, and variations on the entire blog. Use the Strong tag, add title to links and alt to images. This is it. The key here is to do a good keyword search before writing.


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