| The
difference between [ NAME ] & [ HTTP-EQUIV ] - |
HTTP-EQUIV tags are equivalent
to http headers where the name tag on the other hand is not.
- <META
HTTP-EQUIV="name"
CONTENT="content">
- <META
NAME="name"
CONTENT="content">
| Description
& Keywords Tags - |
 |
Search engines have spiders, which use the words designated by the
TITLE tag and a few paragraphs of your document to help people find
you. You can see that this is not the best way to represent yourself
on the web because your site may be based on much that is not in those
few paragraphs. That's where the meta-tags come into use. With these
tags you can tell people exactly what you're all about and designate
keywords for your site.
This is how
you do it -
Somewhere between <head> and </head> in your
HTML file,
Insert this code -
<META
name="description"
content=" **
">
Where you see ** type the description of your page.
<META
name="keywords"
content=" ##
">
Where you see ## type the type the keywords
(Separated by commas) that will lead people
to your site.
Example
-
<Title>Old
Cars</title>
<META name="description"content="We
specialize in cars">
<META name="keywords"content="
car,auto,engine ">
It will appear like so in the index:
Old Cars
We specialize in
cars
-http://www.oldcars.com
TIP:
For descriptions some search engines only consider about 50 words and
others up to 1024(which is a lot!) so make sure to cram the most
important stuff in those first 50 words or so.
| The
Robot Tag - |
|
The robot tag allows you to give the spiders or robots instrustions.
There are 2 things you can specify:
Either - [INDEX
or
NOINDEX] and [FOLLOW
or
NOFOLLOW]
[INDEX,NOINDEX]
-
This will tell the robot whether you want this page indexed or not.
[FOLLOW,NOFOLLOW]
-
This will tell the robot that either you want it to follow the links
and index the pages on the other end or that you want it to stop at
that page.
Example -
<META
name="robots"
content="noindex,nofollow">
|
Description
& Keywords Tags