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Metatag Guidelines
META tags are HTML Tags that describe
the contents of a web page. The primary purpose
of Meta tags is to help catalog and categorize
the contents of a web page. If your pages
do not contain them then they may not get
categorized the way you'd like by the search
engines.
We recommend that you at least include the
'Description', 'Keyword' and 'Robots' tags.
Also the 'Title' of your page plays an important
role in helping search engines (and visitors)
to determine the content of your site.Only
25% of sites use them, but most search engines
evaluate META tags when they rank your site.
Once you have selected the keywords that really
fit your site you can begin to add them to
your page as you build it. Along with using
those key words as the first words within
their HTML meta tags, image tags, heading
tags, title tag, text link tags, alt tags
and even the file name of the page itself
you need to use them in your HTML meta tags:
Meta Tags:
Meta tags are between the <head></head>
tags in your HTML. Meta tags are how many
of the search engines index your site. This
can determine how you place on the search
results when someone does a keyword search
at a search engine. To avoid having your site
end up being ten pages deep in the search
result make yourself an excellent FREE set
of tags with our Meta Tag Maker below. You
should at least have meta tags for your description,
keywords and robots. Your tags should be rich
in keywords that relate to your site.
Description Meta Tag:
Everyone agrees that your web pages should
contain meta tags. You will need to customize
your meta tags to fit your sites content to
get high rankings in the search engines.
Keywords Meta Tag:
Use lot's of keywords separated by commas
for this tag. Example: affiliate program,
make money, top 10, affiliates, associate,
referral.
Robots Meta Tag:
You will need to have a robot tag to tell
the robots the visit your site whether the
pages they visit should be indexed and added
to the search engine listings. Your choices
for this tag are ALL, FOLLOW, INDEX, NOINDEX
and NOINDEX FOLLOW. For info on web robots.
Copyright:
Add a copyright in this format: copyright
1999 you or
copyright 1999 yourdomain.com
Reply to Email:
You might want an email account just for this
as some of the search engines often send a
lot of email advertising. We offer free email
accounts if you need one. Set up a free email
account.
Engine Revisit:
This tells some search engine how often to
re-index the page for fresh content
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