Upon submission of your site to the major search engines, your website will be visited and will be indexed. Your page title
and META tags, the hidden codes in every HTML page, represent important components in the indexing techniques of those major
search engines.
The title and META tags must be placed between the<HEAD> and </HEAD>tags.
As an example, the HTML of your page should be as follows:
This is the portion of your Web page which is viewable within the browser
As a guide, the title and Meta tags should be used as follows:
<html>
<head>
<TITLE></TITLE>
Example:
<TITLE>HumordeMiami.com -- Free web resources and Meta tag analyzer</TITLE>
Your site ought to contain at least the title tag. The tag should be placed between the <HEAD> and </HEAD>
codes of your page. Ensure that your title is simple and short and provides a quick description in one or two sentences.
Be specific and avoid general terms because the content of your title will be reviewed by search engines prior to site
indexing and registration. A visitor will only see the TITLE tag when your site is bookmarked or saved to a list of favourite
sites.
META DESCRIPTION
Example :
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="describe your site here">
Again, this tag must be placed between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> codes of your page.
Use keywords and key phrases that describe your company, products and services, the industry and
or market. Include your company's name within this tag. Most search engines will limit the number
of characters within the description tag to about 200.
META KEYWORDS
Example :
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="place, your, site, keywords, here">
Set up a list of keywords with commas to separate each word. Put yourself in the shoes of your potential visitiors
and clients. What keywords will they use to search for a site that contains the products, services, and contents that
your company offers? Avoid excessive repetition in your list of keywords because some search engines will view it as
spamming of their indexes (spamdexing), which will result in low placement or skipping of your site altogether. Using
keywords that are not relevant to your site will also sometimes be considered spamdexing. Brainstorm at least 50 words
and narrow them down to those that are most relevant. Use plurals because search engines will process both the singular
and plural forms. Stick to a limit of less than 1000 characters.
META REVISIT
Example : <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="30 days">
This Meta tag tells the search engine to come back and refresh your listing in a set number of days; in this example,
30 days. A revisit interval of 15 or 30 days is more than sufficient.
META ROBOTS
Example : <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index">
<HEAD> and </HEAD>
This Meta tag tells the search engine to not only list the submitted page, but to go ahead and list all of the webpages at
your domain. If the content is changed to "noindex" then only the page submitted will be indexed.
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