Re: search engine not reading websites meta taqs

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From: Murray (forums_at_HAHAgreat-web-sights.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 06:40:43 -0500

So does a space. 

-- 
Murray
"Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@mvps.org> wrote in message 
news:eruG1P42EHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Good catch, I didn't even look at the head or HTML tag.
>
> The comma takes up a character, that is why I don't use it, since at one 
> point you had to watch the total number of characters in your keyword tag.
>
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> "David Baxter" <spam-me@junkmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:ukx3De22EHA.2624@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Actually, the tags are entered prior to the <head>, which is incorrect:
>>
>> "<html>
>> <Title>welcome to the rebel cook</Title>
>> <META Name="revisit-after" Content="30 Days">
>> <META Name="Description" Content="The Rebel Cook will share her favorite
>> recipes, tips and secrets to becoming a great cook and a gracious
>> hostess--so join her and explore the cook in you!">
>> <META Name="Keywords" Content="Rebel Cook,Rebel Housewife,Vicki
>> Todd,Cook,Recipe,Sherri Caldwell,Vicki Roos,humor,to heck with domestic
>> bliss">
>> <META Name="Author" Content="vicki roos">
>>
>> <head>
>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
>> charset=windows-1252">
>> <title>welcome to the rebel cook</title>
>> <style fprolloverstyle>A:hover {color: #D20000; font-weight: bold}
>> </style>
>> </head>"
>>
>> Move that <head> declaration to the line directly below <html>.
>>
>> Re-write the title so that it contains search terms people might use to
>> find you -- the title is the most important of the meta tags these days.
>>
>> Delete the line that says <META Name="revisit-after" Content="30
>> Days"> -- this tells the spiders not to bother returning for a month.
>> It's not clear that bots pay any attention to this any more but if they
>> did you might well be reducing the frequency of spidering your site and
>> that is bad SEO.
>>
>> I disagree with Thomas regarding the comma versus space issue -- the
>> keywords meta tag has limited value now but if you include it go for
>> phrases rather than single words and by separate them with commas. Then
>> choose for your keywords search terms people will actually use to find
>> you.
>>
>>
>> "Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:%23Xeewfo2EHA.3128@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>> This is not a FP issue, as you meta tag are entered correctly. I would
>> separate them with a space
>>> instead of a comma.
>>>
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>>>
>>> "vtroos" <vtroos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:EE4FAB0D-0F65-41B9-8C04-A1B22625BF7B@microsoft.com...
>>> > hi I ran an tag analysis with submitnet it is below, you can click
>> on the
>>> > link to see it.  As you can see it does not read any of the key
>> words.  I was
>>> > wondering why.
>>> >
>>> > http://www.submitnet.net/tool-keywordanalysis-897720/default/Meta
>> Tag
>>> > Current Content
>>> >
>>> > the url is http://therebelcook.com/
>>> >
>>> > The keywords and description are listed below
>>> > Title  welcome to the rebel cook
>>> >
>>> > Keywords  Rebel Cook,Rebel Housewife,Vicki Todd,Cook,Recipe,Sherri
>>> > Caldwell,Vicki Roos,humor,to heck with domestic bliss
>>> >
>>> > Description  The Rebel Cook will share her favorite recipes, tips
>> and
>>> > secrets to becoming a great cook and a gracious hostess--so join her
>> and
>>> > explore the cook in you!
>>> >
>>> > All key words are listed on the page.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for your help
>>> > vicki
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > "vicki" wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> the search engines are not reading my sites meta taqs. can anyone
>> tell me why?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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