I've never made a site that has been on a search engine. The meta tags never work. Can someone tell me if there is something wrong with these tags or if there is more I need to add?<br />
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<head><br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset=iso-8859-1" /><br />
<meta name="keywords" content="content"><br />
<meta description="site description"><br />
</head><br />
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shouldn't that be enough to get it on a search engine or is there more to it?<!--content-->Search engines don't pay much attention to META elements any more; they look at the page itself. And if your page isn't accesible then it isn't accessible to search engines. See <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/">http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/</a><!-- m -->. But if you are going to use META elements to describe your page then you might want to use the Doublin Core. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="Seehttp://dublincore.org/">Seehttp://dublincore.org/</a><!-- m -->. was reading part of that and it sounds like I would have to rebuild the entire site. Was there a specific part in that tells how to get it on search engines? W3 link, that is.<!--content-->I think the spiders themselves (as on google etc) rank the importance by the content of the page. The nearer to the top of the page it is the more prominence it gets. Which is why css design for pages gets thumbs up - it doesn't waste time indexing your code.<br />
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Make sure you mention your keywords as many times as possible in your advertising blurbs...<br />
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However, google etc have humans who visit sites on the internet as found by their spiders to decide if it is worth putting them in their web directories. Basically the humans look at meta tags, the spiders don't. Humans will also look at how clean the layout is etc. <br />
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That's my impression anyway.<!--content-->And it's my understanding that the spiders index according to the headings, and if you do not properly use the H elements then they see no headings. The page needs to follow the accessiblity guidelines<!--content-->
<br />
<head><br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset=iso-8859-1" /><br />
<meta name="keywords" content="content"><br />
<meta description="site description"><br />
</head><br />
<br />
shouldn't that be enough to get it on a search engine or is there more to it?<!--content-->Search engines don't pay much attention to META elements any more; they look at the page itself. And if your page isn't accesible then it isn't accessible to search engines. See <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/">http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/</a><!-- m -->. But if you are going to use META elements to describe your page then you might want to use the Doublin Core. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="Seehttp://dublincore.org/">Seehttp://dublincore.org/</a><!-- m -->. was reading part of that and it sounds like I would have to rebuild the entire site. Was there a specific part in that tells how to get it on search engines? W3 link, that is.<!--content-->I think the spiders themselves (as on google etc) rank the importance by the content of the page. The nearer to the top of the page it is the more prominence it gets. Which is why css design for pages gets thumbs up - it doesn't waste time indexing your code.<br />
<br />
Make sure you mention your keywords as many times as possible in your advertising blurbs...<br />
<br />
However, google etc have humans who visit sites on the internet as found by their spiders to decide if it is worth putting them in their web directories. Basically the humans look at meta tags, the spiders don't. Humans will also look at how clean the layout is etc. <br />
<br />
That's my impression anyway.<!--content-->And it's my understanding that the spiders index according to the headings, and if you do not properly use the H elements then they see no headings. The page needs to follow the accessiblity guidelines<!--content-->