I believe meta tags are still important for SERPS. Where do you insert meta description and meta keywords, is there any set pattern? Here is the example: need help! <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <meta name="computers" content="Quality Computers"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="computers.css" media="screen"/> <title>Best Price Computers</title> </head> <body>
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="your keywords"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="your description"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="FOLLOW,INDEX"> Thanks Brian
Thanks for the good tip. I also have a related question: How do you seperate your keywords in the CONTENT="your keywords"> part? Would you just use a comma and then a space inbetween each one? Also, if you have one keyword per page, do you just put in the keyword for that page or do you put every keyword for your site? Ben
I would put title tag at the top and meta keywords/description at the bottom. Separate keywords with a comma, without space. Every page should have its "unique" keywords and descriptions.
User friendly explanation of how to add multiple keywords: <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="keyword1, keyword 2, keyword 3, keyword 4"> Code (markup): I would also put a title above those, since Google is reading the page from the begining.
I heard that google doesn't look at meta keywords at all. Is this true? Either way, I've read that other SE's do consider keywords, so I use them on my site.
This issue just keeps coming up time after time after time. Seriously, someone should sticky my All You Need to Know About SEO thread and be done with it. Put your TITLE element first (that's not a META tag, though it is meta data - there is a difference between the two). Next put your META tags, starting with the description (which is used to provide an accurate, clear, concise summary of the current page), your keywords (separated by a comma and a space, even though most search engines don't use them anymore), followed by your LINK and SCRIPT elements. Brian, you don't need the follow,index tag in there. That's the default behavior of a search engine spider anyway, so you can safely get rid of it. Ben, I already answered your first question (see above). And your second. As for the third, you never know what keywords someone will be searching for, but you should have conducted your keyword research before you wrote one single line of page copy anyway. Assuming you did so, your keywords for that page (which also appear in the page content) will be placed in that tag from most important to least important. Close, but no cigar. TITLE, META, LINK, SCRIPT - that works best not only for the search engines, but the browsers as well (especially since you can use the stylesheet to contain class and ID rules for the scripts to hook into). Precisely. META keywords yes. In fact, none of the major search engines do. Several smaller ones, including the meta search engines and some site-speciific search engines (site search forms on various sites that search for content on that site only) still do, so it's a good idea to include them.
Here is a tool you can you to help you to create your meta tags http://www.designingonline.com/spin/meta-tags.html
It's actually better to do this by hand. I never trust anything to a text generator. Especially when money (or the potential to make money) is involved.