Can anyone give me a detailed description of how to apply meta tags to my website? I know they go on the first page, right? but I don't know how to write the "codes". Is there a template somewhere in CoffeCup?
THANKS A MILLION for any help you can give.
Marie
Novice needs Help applying Meta Tags...
marie sarvas
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Philip Lench
Registered User
198 posts
This is basically it:
<head>
<title>index</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008 - www.coffeecup.com">
<meta name="description" content="my home page">
<meta name="keywords" content="home,page,mine">
</head>
Where it says "description" content= put something that describes your site.
Where it says "keywords" content= put a load of words that can advertise & describe your site to the search engines.
For instance if your site is about art then put in words like: watercolours,crayon,canvas,oils,galleries etc etc
You can also expand your meta tags like so:
<meta name="TITLE" content="Harriers-Online: - Welcome to the wonderful world of Kidderminster Harriers FC">
<meta name="verify-v1" content="5OO8fy9NByClmvc3NWbdmndK/ybG6yhmBXXGeVUgVYQ=" /><!-- Google -->
<meta name="y_key" content="f4da9ab0e74a9804" ><!-- Yahoo -->
<meta http-equiv="CHARSET" content="ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="CONTENT-LANGUAGE" content="English">
<meta http-equiv="VW96.OBJECT TYPE" content="Document">
<meta http-equiv="CACHE-CONTROL" content="No-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta content="OWNER" name="Philip Lench">
<meta content="AUTHOR" name="Philip Lench">
<meta content="COPYRIGHT" name="Philip Lench">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor">
<meta name="IDENTIFIER-URL" content="http://www.harriers-online.co.uk">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="All">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="Follow,index">
<meta name="RATING" content="General">
<meta name="REVISIT-AFTER" content="7 days">
<meta name="RESOURCE-TYPE" content="document">
<meta name="DISTRIBUTION" content="Global">
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="A site that's independent from Kidderminster Harriers FC, for the supporters of Kidderminster Harriers, bringing you all the latest club news, player news, results, features and gossip from Aggborough, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England.">
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="KHFC,Kidderminster Harriers,Kidderminster Harriers FC,Kidderminster Harriers supporters,Harriers,Aggborough Stadium,FA,Nationwide,League 2,Football League,Blue Square Premier,Nationwide Conference,Harriers-Online,harriers-online,harriersonline,Philip Lench,League Two,Coca Cola League Two,professional football,Jan Molby,Ian Britton,Jimmy Conway,Graham Allner,Stuart Watkiss,Mark Yates,Harriers Chatter,forum,message board,MotM,Man of the Match">
But that's going OTT slightly
<head>
<title>index</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008 - www.coffeecup.com">
<meta name="description" content="my home page">
<meta name="keywords" content="home,page,mine">
</head>
Where it says "description" content= put something that describes your site.
Where it says "keywords" content= put a load of words that can advertise & describe your site to the search engines.
For instance if your site is about art then put in words like: watercolours,crayon,canvas,oils,galleries etc etc
You can also expand your meta tags like so:
<meta name="TITLE" content="Harriers-Online: - Welcome to the wonderful world of Kidderminster Harriers FC">
<meta name="verify-v1" content="5OO8fy9NByClmvc3NWbdmndK/ybG6yhmBXXGeVUgVYQ=" /><!-- Google -->
<meta name="y_key" content="f4da9ab0e74a9804" ><!-- Yahoo -->
<meta http-equiv="CHARSET" content="ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="CONTENT-LANGUAGE" content="English">
<meta http-equiv="VW96.OBJECT TYPE" content="Document">
<meta http-equiv="CACHE-CONTROL" content="No-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta content="OWNER" name="Philip Lench">
<meta content="AUTHOR" name="Philip Lench">
<meta content="COPYRIGHT" name="Philip Lench">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor">
<meta name="IDENTIFIER-URL" content="http://www.harriers-online.co.uk">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="All">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="Follow,index">
<meta name="RATING" content="General">
<meta name="REVISIT-AFTER" content="7 days">
<meta name="RESOURCE-TYPE" content="document">
<meta name="DISTRIBUTION" content="Global">
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="A site that's independent from Kidderminster Harriers FC, for the supporters of Kidderminster Harriers, bringing you all the latest club news, player news, results, features and gossip from Aggborough, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England.">
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="KHFC,Kidderminster Harriers,Kidderminster Harriers FC,Kidderminster Harriers supporters,Harriers,Aggborough Stadium,FA,Nationwide,League 2,Football League,Blue Square Premier,Nationwide Conference,Harriers-Online,harriers-online,harriersonline,Philip Lench,League Two,Coca Cola League Two,professional football,Jan Molby,Ian Britton,Jimmy Conway,Graham Allner,Stuart Watkiss,Mark Yates,Harriers Chatter,forum,message board,MotM,Man of the Match">
But that's going OTT slightly
BillR
Ambassador
3,144 posts
mariesarvas@yahoo.com wrote:
Can anyone give me a detailed description of how to apply meta tags to my website? I know they go on the first page, right?
Can anyone give me a detailed description of how to apply meta tags to my website? I know they go on the first page, right?
Marie,
Philip gave a very good description of how to use meta tags.
If you need to know how to put them into a specific program, if you are using VSD, use the html tool and insert the meta tag data in the head section. If you are using the HTML Editor, just put them somewhere between the opening <head> tag and the closing </head> tag as in Philip's example.
You may want to put meta tags on each page, and make them different. Using Philip's example of an art site, you may have a page specifically for watercolors and not have other types of art in the keywords, but maybe have the artist names as keywords.
Using meta tags to help the search engines is an art in itself.
Bruzer
Registered User
3,940 posts
or in VSD you could use--http://kellyinfo.com/web/met2.jpg
http://kellyinfo.com/web/met1.jpg and place for whole website or individual page as Bill suggested.
http://kellyinfo.com/web/met1.jpg and place for whole website or individual page as Bill suggested.
BillR
Ambassador
3,144 posts
Bruce,
I learned something new today. VSD has a meta tag editor.
Thanks.
I learned something new today. VSD has a meta tag editor.
Thanks.
Bruzer
Registered User
3,940 posts
Billr,
I'm learning more from you everyday. so thank you.
I appreciate it.
I'm learning more from you everyday. so thank you.
I appreciate it.
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