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Meta Tags
What
are Meta Tags?
Why do I need Meta Tags?
How do I make Meta Tags?
 What
are Meta Tags?
Meta Tags are
coding that is inserted into your HTML Document and plays a very important
part of a Web Page.
The easiest way to understand Meta Tags is to view them like a Advertising.
When you are advertising, you put down everything you need and can think
of about the product to ensure you sell that product.
There are two parts to Meta Tags (Attributes) - Name and Content.
The NAME attribute gives the Meta Tag an identifying name
The CONTENT attribute defines what Content is to be associated with the
Name you defined in the NAME= portion of the Meta Tag.
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Why
do I need Meta Tags?
Meta Tags are
strings of coding you insert in the first ten lines of your HTML Document.
When someone types in a word or phrase to search for something, spiders
from the search engines search the first 10 lines of every document looking
for a matching word or phrase.
To ensure that your site shows up, you need to have the right resume (lines
of coding). Without Meta Tags, your site will never see the first 5 pages
of any search engine unless you either pay to submit to the Search Engines
or submit your pages to the every Search Engine and submit every individual
page as well. Since each page of your site may have a different topic,
the Meta Tags will contain this information in the first 10 lines.
The spider will take certain bits of information from your coding to determine
what each page is about, and where and how it should be displayed to a
person using the Search Engine. Most Search Engines will use your Meta
Tag defined keywords and description to perform this task.
It is important
to make sure that the keywords you use are relevant to your page. It is
also VERY BAD to repeat any keyword more than 3 or 4 times. Search Engines
will view this as an attempt to SPAM your keywords and probably drop your
page altogether from the Search Engine listings.
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How
do I make Meta Tags?
Since Meta Tags are very important, it is important
for you to know some of them and what they mean.
Here are some
basic Meta tags you will need to know. Meta Tags are different and work
differently than HTML Tags. Meta Tags have Attributes and Values and each
one is very specific in it's task. Here are my Meta Tags for this page
and the reasons why.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Diva of the Net - Help Pages - Meta Tags</TITLE>
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about that Tag.
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<META
NAME="description" CONTENT="Diva of the Net - Help Pages">
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<META
NAME="Author" CONTENT="Lady Care"> |
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<META
NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/3.01Gold (Win95; I) [Netscape]">
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<META
NAME="OWNER" CONTENT="[email protected]">
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<META
NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="All Content, materials and graphics
are copyrighted by Lady Care's Realm On The Web"> |
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<META
HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="Monday, November 11, 2002
00:00:01 PST"> |
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<META
NAME="RATING" CONTENT="General"> |
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<META
NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,follow"> |
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<META
NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="4 weeks"> |
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<META
NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Diva of the Net,Divas,help,helping,assistance,
giving help,offering help,assisting,awarness,learning,teaching,showing,sharing"> |
| <META
NAME="description" CONTENT="Diva of the Net - Help Pages"> |
| This Meta Tag
is defined as the "Description" Meta Tag and I have included
a short description of the site's subject as the Content of that Meta Tag.
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| <META
NAME="Author" CONTENT="Lady Care"> |
| This tag defines
who wrote your web page. You can use your real name, online name or the
name of your company. |
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| <META
NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/3.01Gold (Win95; I) [Netscape]"> |
| This tag defines
the editor or generator of your document. (Which porgram you
used to create it.. |
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| <META
NAME="OWNER" CONTENT="[email protected]"> |
| This tag allows
you to define the email address people should use to get in touch with
you. |
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| <META
NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="All Content, materials and graphics
are copyrighted by Lady Care's Realm On The Web"> |
| This tag allows
you to define you as the owner of all content, materials and graphics if
you made them. It also allows you to show when your page was created. As
the author of your page you hold the copyright to the material on it. You
cannot claim the copyright on other people's works even if they appear
on your page. |
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| <META
HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="Monday, November 11, 2002
00:00:01 PST"> |
| This tag defines
the expiration date of your document. If you do not want your document
to expire, leave blank and the default is never |
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| <META
NAME="RATING" CONTENT="General"> |
| This tag defines
what visitors your site geared towards. Some possible values: "GENERAL""14
YEARS" "MATURE", or "RESTRICTED" |
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| <META
NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,follow"> |
This tag tells
the Search Engine spiders look at just the index page or to follow the
links and index them on your pages. When a search engine spider visits
your page it will most likely try to follow your links and index every
page it encounters.
Other Values:
"ALL"
This will tell a search engine spider to follow ALL the links on
your web page and index everything it finds.
"NOINDEX"
This will tell a search engine NOT to index this page at all, but
it can follow any links on the page.
"NOFOLLOW"
This will tell the search engine spider to index this page, but
NOT to follow any links on this page.
"NONE"
This will tell the search engine NOT to index or follow any links on this
page.
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| <META
NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="4 weeks"> |
| This tag tells
the search engine when to come back and index your pages again |
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<META
NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Diva of the Net,Divas,help,helping,assistance,
giving help,offering help,assisting,awarness,learning,teaching,showing,sharing"> |
| This tag tells
the search engine what your page is about through the Keywords. You should
also put down phrases that someone will type in asking for. |
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