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Subject: how to put meta tags in web page
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: arborette-ga
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Posted: 08 Aug 2002 04:20 PDT
Expires: 07 Sep 2002 04:20 PDT
Question ID: 52112

how to put meta tags in web page

Request for Question Clarification by dms-ga on 08 Aug 2002 05:02 PDT

Hi arborette,

What exactly do you want to know? The syntax for adding a MetaTag to
an HTML document? Or are you looking for specific information about
certain metatags?

dms-ga

Request for Question Clarification by lot-ga on 08 Aug 2002 05:39 PDT

Hello,
it sounds too easy as a question, as dms-ga points out, 
there is probably something underlining your question.
For example you 'might' be using free webspace and you only have a web
based editor to do your website creation which 'may' not offer the
facility to add meta tags that an FTP based service allows.... or
something along those lines.
If you can specify also
1. what software application do you use to create your web pages, 
or
1b. who is the provider of your web based editor.
2. What search engines are you expecting your meta tags to be seen in,
- in case you were expecting to see their effect and they weren't
appearing (some engines ignore meta tags).
This would help the researcher
kind regards
lot-ga

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Subject: Re: how to put meta tags in web page
Answered By: nealc-ga on 08 Aug 2002 07:45 PDT

A good question. Meta tags are used by some search engines to quickly
access information from a webpage. The meta tags are not seen by a
person when using a browser to look at a webpage. They are placed in
the "HEAD" section of the webpage. To see that section you will need
to actually view the source document. You can do that by clicking on
the View drop down menu in Internet Explorer and clicking on the word
"source". You will see how the source page looks. This is what the web
browser sees and then translates into webpages we are used to viewing
on the web. Here is an example of a portion of page from my website
with meta tags in place.
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
   <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
   <meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="Microbiology website">
   <meta name="KEYWORDS" content="medical microbiology, microbiology,
bacteria pictures, pictures of bacteria">
<head>

There are several different types of meta tags. I use description and
keywords tags because a number of search engines use those when they
index a site. Here is a website that will tell you a little more about
these tags.
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/chap15.shtml

To put the meta tags in a webpage you will need to have a webpage
editor (Frontpage; comes with the professional version of Microsoft
Office.). There are a number of webpage editor available for a price
or for free by downloading.
http://cws.internet.com/32html.html

A program as simple as notepad can be used to change webpages as well.
Notepad is available on any Microsoft Windows based computer. It is a
very simple word processor. You have to have a way to download your
page to your computer and then upload it to the computer that is
hosting your webpages on the internet. Some webhosting companies like
geocities will give you an option of looking at an advanced webpage
editor that just shows you the html code. You can change the code
online and then save the changes automatically to their computers.

Each html document contains a HEAD section. The head section is at the
top of the document and begins with the <head> tag and ends with the
following tag </head>. The meta tags are placed between these two head
tags. Most user friendly webpage editors have a help section that will
show you how to put meta tags in your pages so you don't have to know
how to place the exact code in your pages. However, if you want to
just put them in yourself go to html view in your webpage editor or
use the notepad program to change the html code. The following lines
of code will allow you to get description and keywords meta tags in
your webpages. Just cut and paste the following lines into your
webpages when viewing the actual html code. Replace "your own words"
with your own words that either describe or are important keywords for
your webpage. The quotation marks and the greater than and less than
symbols are important and should not be removed or changed. Separate
different words or phrases with a comma.
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="your own words">
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="your own words">

Hope that Helps.
nealc-ga

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