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Tutorials - Metatags, Increase Your Visitors
Want to increase your traffic flow? Want the search engines to find your page? Then you need to add what is called Meta Tags in your <HEAD>. What is a Meta Tag? It tells search engines about your page. By listing keywords that may not appear in your page, but your page contains information about that subject, you add it in your Meta Tag. There are metatags that will refresh your page every few seconds, and ones that will re-direct visitors, there are listed in the scripts menu. But we are talking about the search ones. In your index file copy and paste the following code info in your <head> tag...
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Nathan Portors">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="java city 2000, a collection of free java scripts, free java applets, java, free applets, midi's, free programs, files and filez to help you with your web page. Award rating service to rate your page too.">
<META NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="java, java scripts, java applets, midi's.">
Okay, what do you change? You change the author name to your name. And in the second line, CONTENT="java… change the description to a description of your own page. Make this around 25 words because that's what most search engines use. If you go over 25, it will only use the first 25 followed by dots. In the third line, change the keywords that people type in the search engine to your works about your page. When a search is done, it will be done on both your content and keywords, so if your content explanation don't contain words you'd like people to find you by, add them in the keywords.
Now, in IE4 and you have frames, you have to make a new or second <head> section, because it only likes the frame codeing and no other text above it. This is my index page...
<title>Java City 2000 - Java Scripts, Java Applets, Midi's, Programs.</title>
<head><base target="main"></head>
<frameset cols ="*,153" border=0,none frameborder=no,none>
<frame src="index2.html" name="stuff" noresize omarginwidth=0 omarginheight=0 scrolling=auto>
<frame src="nav.htm" name="buttons">
</frameset>
</HTML>
</BODY>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Nathan Portors">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="java city 2000, a collection of free java scripts, free java applets, java, free applets, midi's, free programs, files and filez to help you with your web page. Award rating service to rate your page too.">
<META NAME="KeyWords" CONTENT="java, java scripts, java applets, free java scripts, scrolling text, chat, scripts, nathan portors">
<body bgcolor="#005A96" link="orange" vlink="orange" alink="00FF95">
</HEAD>
<HTML>
<BODY><font color=#005A96">
java city 2000, a collection of java scripts, java applets, java, chat, midi's, free programs, files and filez to help you with your web page. Award rating service to rate your page too.
</BODY>
</HTML>
Search engines use the title you choose as the title they display. Note that there is a body of text there which because of the frames you can't see. This is because some search engines also (on top of the content and keywords in your MetaTag) get page keywords from here, and some even use that as the description it displays. It's good to have both. Have the font color of this the same as your background.
Use The New...
MetaTag Generator
To Make Your Tags Easy!
Now, here are a few search engines to register your page with...
Altavista
Hotbot
These two use the MetaTags. I'm not sure but I think you need to re-add your page in Altavista everytime you change you MetaTag content.
Yahoo doesn't use the MetaTags. When you add your URL (or suggest a site as they say), you add your own keywords and description in the registration process. These are all free to enter. Have your MetaTags ready before you join. There are also many other search engines to submit your site to. Some even add it to 20 or 30 other search engines too!!!
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