I was hoping someone else might know for sure, but all it says in Help is to separate the tags with a comma, so I have mine as meta1, meta2, etc., and it seems to work fine.
DavidF
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"How do you type mulitpul meta tags in pub? it is like this... meda ,
Can anyone tell me if the following is in the proper format. I'm trying to get better listing on search engines and Front Page doesn't give any information on meta titles or meta descriptions. After looking at the source from other sites I've come up with text below. Also, does it matter if I use this same info for all of my pages? Finally, comments on this site appreciated: www.just4funphotos.com
<meta name="keywords" content="Just 4 Fun Photos, Photography, Pictures, Belton, Just 4 Fun, Raymore, Peculiar, Cass County, Events, Just For Fun Photos, Belton, Group Events, Reunion, Parade, Restaurant, Community Days, Belton Mo, Car Show, Farmers Market, Family Pictures, Just For Fun, Photos, Main Street Belton">
<meta name="description" content= "Welcome to Just 4 Fun Photos. You have the fun, we'll take the photo's! We are event photographers in Belton, Missouri.
Each page should have a unique title, description and keyword that match the content of the page it is on. Search engines don't really use keywords to index your site any longer, however if used, some may check to see if the keywords used match the page content, and if not then penalize you as spamming the search engine. -- ============================================== Thomas A. Rowe Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
In addition to Thomas' remarks, it may be better to place your meta tags in the order:
<head> <title>Unique for each page</title> <meta name="description" contents="Unique description of the page this tag is on" /> <meta name="keywords" contents="keywords that are in the visible content of the page" />
<!-- other meta tags follow above -->
</head>
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In addition to Thomas' and Ronx' advice, just wanted to add that, these days, meta tags are unimportant in optimizing a page for search engine placement. They probably won't hurt (unless done really badly), but won't likely have much effect. Much more effective are:
-- Placing text on the page which uses the important keywords a number of times -- Having incoming links from other well-ranked web sites
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In addition to Thomas', Ronx's, and Patty's comments, I will tell you that the description is a good thing, as many a search engine will display that text on the SERP
If you use keywords; be gentle on their usage, and make sure they are in your content
"Dennis" <dhud64@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OZMQHcTxHHA.2132@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
Can anyone tell me if the following is in the proper format. I'm trying to
get better listing on search engines and Front Page doesn't give any
information on meta titles or meta descriptions. After looking at the
source from other sites I've come up with text below. Also, does it matter
if I use this same info for all of my pages? Finally, comments on this
In addition to Thomas', Ronx's, Patty's and Mike's comments, <BG> I will tell you that the page title a good thing, that is what is seen when you add a site to your favorites. -- Joe Microsoft MVP FrontPage
Sorry if this is a duplicate. My other post didn't show up? Thanks for your continued input. Regarding the title content you referenced, where would that go in the code below? Also my original html code had this additional wording, where does it belong or is it even necessary? Thanks again!!!
where does title content belong? <head> <title>Unique for each page</title> <meta name="description" contents="Unique description of the page this tag is on" /> <meta name="keywords" contents="keywords that are in the visible content of the page" />
<!-- other meta tags follow above -->
</head>
"P@tty Ayers" <pattyayersTAKETHISOUT@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message news:e6zRM1hxHHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
But be aware that <meta name="title" content="My Title"> is not the same
thing as the HTML element <title>. It's the HTML <title> which is shown in
Favorites and other places, and more importantly, it's that element which
As I understand it, the order of meta tags is not important. It's always best for the search engine spider to get to some keywords as soon as possible as it reads down through your code, but a line or two isn't going to matter much.
This tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> identifies that the page is written in English. It isn't necessary, but is generally a good idea to include.
This tag: <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"> identifies that the site was built with FrontPage 4.0, and isn't necessary, but won't hurt anything, either.
The <title> tag can be anywhere within the "head" section of the document - in other words, between <head> and </head>. This is the one I would suggest that you pack with keywords as much as is reasonable without making it look like nonsense. I have seen search engines respond quite well to this.
As Mike pointed out, the meta description is definitely useful; put in it the words you'd like to have displayed when your site comes up in search engine results.
As pretty much everybody seems to agree, meta keywords have little or no importance to search engines these days. It won't hurt to include them, but make sure there are only a few (5-10 words), and that they are 100% relevant to the actual content of the page.
Having said all of that: as far as getting well listed in the search engines, all of this is secondary. More important is having keyword-rich text content on the page itself, and having a lot of incoming links (sites which link TO your site).
Hope that helps.
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"Dennis" <dhud64@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:O3R3bZtxHHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
Sorry if this is a duplicate. My other post didn't show up? Thanks for
your continued input. Regarding the title content you referenced, where
would that go in the code below? Also my original html code had this
additional wording, where does it belong or is it even necessary?
"P@tty Ayers" <pattyayersTAKETHISOUT@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message news:eoQC%23KvxHHA.2432@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
The <title> tag can be anywhere within the "head" section of the
document - in other words, between <head> and </head>. This is the one I
would suggest that you pack with keywords as much as is reasonable without
making it look like nonsense. I have seen search engines respond quite
well to this.
Packing might best be limited to around 10 or less words and probably less than 65 characters. While it isn't a hard rule...anything more than that will probably be truncated and so no advantage there. If you need something longer do it in an <h1> at the top of your page in visible text.
I'm running Windows XP and Office '02 XP with Front Page. I recently ran a web site grader on my site it showed that I had no meta description or keywords. Is this because I recently switched my site to a frames layout? Do I have to put descriptions and keywords in all the frames for each page? I don't understand why the site grader didn't see my description and keywords in what I call the top frame?
Each page should have its own keywords and description meta tags, and the content of these tags should relate to the page they are on, or the search engines may penalise you. Keywords and description on the frameset page should only relate to the content of the frameset page - often little or no real content there in most sites.
Be aware that nowadays most search engines ignore keywords (except perhaps for applying penalties), preferring to use the page content instead. Also, if a user uses a search engine to get to one of your pages, the page will load without the frames (unless you use a dynamic frameset) leaving the user without navigation. Same applies to using favourites or bookmarks. -- Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage) Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
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