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Maljonic

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I think meta tags are looked at by search engines, am I right? Can someone help me with how they should look, or tell me if I'm doing it right or wrong? At the moment I have this at the top of my index page:


<html>
<head profile="http://www.maljonicsdreams.barrysworld.net/">
<meta name="maljonic" content="dream diary and forum"
<meta name="Dreams" content="dreams and ideas"
</head>
<head>
<title>Maljonics Home Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

thanks in advance for any help:)
 
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Jonty

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Hi Maljonic

You're right, including meta tags can help search engines determine what's on your page. Here's the code you posted with a few corrections made:

Code: 
<html>
<head>
  <title>Maljonic's Home Page</title>
  <meta name="description" content="Maljonic's Home Page" />
  <meta name="keywords" content="Maljonic, Home, Page, BarrysWorld, Dreams" />
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>


Your content</p>
</body>
</html>
There are quite a few changes made. Firstly, there should only ever be one <head></head> tag. Secondly, all meta tags must be correct ended e.g. <meta />. Thirdly, all meta tags should usually have a name and content. For search engines, you'll need one's with a name="description" and name="keywords". The description is a long, textual description of the page contents, the keywords and individual, comma separated keywords associated with that page.

Hope this helps

Kind Regards

Jonty

P.S. The third, 'Content-Type' meta tag is to help browsers understand what character set your page uses, so it's best to leave it in. There are a great many other meta tags you can also use too, just shout if you're interested.
 
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Maljonic

Guest
thanks, is this right?

<html>
<head>
<title>Maljonics Home Page</title>
<meta name="description" content="Maljonic's Home Page" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Maljonic, Home, Page, BarrysWorld, Dreams" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

</head>

I would like to know a little more about this; I want the words 'dream' 'dreaming' 'lucid' to be recognised by search engines like Google; whom I believe update their database fairly often by searching for new sites...
 
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Jonty

Guest
Hi :)

That looks okay, although the third meta tag should end in /> like the others (sorry, mistake my example :(). If you want to add the words 'dreams' etc, add them to the keywords meta tag, separating each with a comma; e.g.

Code: 
<meta name="keywords" content="Maljonic, Home, Page, BarrysWorld, Dreams, Dream, Dreaming, Lucid" />
As you say, Google uses a program, called GoogleBot, which is constantly crawling the web. However, the ranking system Google uses is a little more complicated. Read this excellent page for more information.

Kind Regards
 
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Jonty

Guest
You're welcome. Feel free to post again if you need any further help.

Kind Regards
 
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