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Meta
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| What
are meta tags? |
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The
Meta tag in html is not a required tag when you're creating
your web pages;The meta tag is used by search engines to allow
them to more accurately list your site in their indexes.
Sometimes.If
you simply produce your home page and register the URL with
a search engine, or a number of search engines, their spider
programmes will (eventually) toddle along to your site to
index it. Now, each of the search engines does this slightly
differently.
You
should insert the meta tag element at the top of your document,
just after the <TITLE> element. It follows the usual
form of tags, ie |
| <META
name="something" content="something else"> |
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but
note that you don't have to have a </META> at the end
of the tag, the way that you do with something like <BOLD>
bold </BOLD>. However, make sure that each tag does
not include any line breaks, since some search engines get
a little bit tetchy about this.
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| <META
name="resource-type" content="document"> |
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| What
can I include in a meta tag? |
| There
are basically four major meta tags that you can use: |
| <META
name="description" content="a description
of your page"> |
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| The
only resource type that is currently in use is "document"
This is the only tag that you need to put in for indexing purposes,
but use of the others is a good idea. |
| <META
name="description" content="a description
of your page"> |
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| Depending
on the search engine, this will be displayed along with the
title of your page in an index. "content" could be
a word, sentence or even paragraph to describe your page. Keep
this reasonably short, concise and to the point. However, don't
be so mean with your description that its not an appropriate
reflection of the contents! |
| <META
name="keywords" content="a, list, of, keywords"> |
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Choose
whatever keywords you think are appropriate, seperated by
commas. Remember to include synoyms, americanisms and so on.
So, if you had a page on cars, you might want to include keywords
such as car, cars, vehicles, automobiles and so on.
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| <META
name="distribution" content="one of several"> |
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Content
should contain either global, local or iu (for Internal
Use). To be perfectly honest, I can't quite get my head
around this one; its supposed to list available resources
designed to allow the use to find things easily, but I still
don't quite get it. our advice is to stick to "global".
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