Meta Tags for Beginners. First Meta Tag Lesson.

Beginners

Ok, so your web site looks great. You have uploaded it and told all your friends to check it out. They have checked it out and say, "Wow. You did that! It looks awesome!" Feels great, right? The only thing is, are the search engines going to find you? It is great to have all your friends looking at your web site, but...

If you want to be a successful webmaster, you need to have people find you because they're looking for something that you have. These people mostly come from sites like ours (OptiMet.net, SingerSong.com, BandBSeek.com, RightDiet.net, BermudaSeek.com, etc...), search engines and search indexes.

Search engines and search indexes use your meta tags to find your web site. Meta tags are positioned in the <head> html of each web page. They contain title, description, keywords, rating, robot inclusions and exclusions, smart tags instructions and more for your visitors' computers (including search engines and search indexes) to use. Look to the very top border on this page. It should say "Fixing Meta Tags" in this border. This is from my "title" meta tag. When I'm on your site, I should see the page title in that border every time. If I don't, I just shake my head and wish you had read this page.

Search engines will test your page to see how many times the words in your meta tags are repeated in your page. The more text, the better. Your site will rank higher if your text is comprehensive. Do not spam (repeat keywords nonsensically) but use "keyword rich" text when writing your pages.

Do you program your site with an html editor like Front Page or Page Mill? Get into your html view and look just below the top <html> tag. There should be a <head> tag, some meta tags and then another <head> tag. Unless you have some Java Script, everything between your <head> tags are meta tags. If you've not changed them, they probably look like this:

Here is what you do with these to get good traffic from search engines and search indexes. You don't really need the generator tag. It is just an advertisement for your editor. So is the ProgId tag, basically. We usually delete them. Ad these tags:

<title>Fixing Meta Tags! You won't get search engine/index traffic without them.</title>

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Fixing your meta tags. We list your sites so we'd like to help you make them look good on our listings.">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">

<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">

Confused? Click here to get an explanation of each critical meta tag.

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What is funny? (To us.) Did you find us on a search engine or search index? Is it because you were looking for tips and information about getting more traffic from these search engines and search indexes? Maybe you were looking for the best way to do meta tags or... the best way to configure your <head> tags. Or, maybe you just want to increase search engine and search index traffic? If you did, then you know that we know that you know that we know what we're talking about! Huh!?

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