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sophiespo
11-12-01, 05:28 PM
Hey PowWeb people,

Why not add a HTML help forum? I have a question about html, but am unsure as to where to post it, so it's going here.

Anyway, maybe someone could help me. Ive NEVER used meta tags and dont really know how to.
To submit your site to the search engines, do you need to put tags on every page of your site? Or just the main page? Or the main page for each of the sections of your site?
Please dont give me a link to a big long how-to guide, i really dont have time to read one, I just want a quick answer. I can write the tags (meta generator in dreamweaver - ok so im a cheater) but i just dont know which / how many pages they need to go on

sophie
Fabian
11-12-01, 05:59 PM
Not too sure, but I think it would be logical that you add meta tags to each page. Search engines may be capable of finding other pages in the same directory too, but that would slow them down, so I don't think any of them works like that.
sophiespo
11-12-01, 06:38 PM
hmm...
see I was thinking it would be logical to put them on the main page for each section
see i have a links directory section, a postcards section, etc, so I thought if I put them on the main page of each of these sections then theyll be the ones found in the search engine

sophie
Fabian
11-12-01, 09:02 PM
I would call that smart :-)
keyplyr
11-12-01, 09:31 PM
Yes, META tags should always be on any page you wish listed in the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages.)

However, most "new and improved" SEs (Google, Fast) do not utilize the KW (Keywords) or other formerly supported tags; only the description and header. The older engines do though. Personally, I cut my KW down to about 10 words in the last year to improve on load time.
Twevster
11-13-01, 03:32 PM
Include

<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="important, 2ndimportant, lastimportant">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Enter a short, brief description.. don't include the title or the address of your website">

Less keywords = higher ranked on existing keywords
Put meta tags in every webpage you wish a search engine to catalogue.

But be careful... some search engines work on links (google) and keywords rather than metatags.
Vern
11-14-01, 08:18 PM
I usually cheat on my meta-tags and use an online meta-tag generator like, http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/builder.html

http://www.websitegarage.com use to insert them automatically into you webpage with a click, but don't seem to do that anymore.
Twevster
11-15-01, 01:17 PM
just add them between the <head> </head> tags