Meta Tags Help
There are over 1000 search engines and
directories. I will only be focusing on the most popular one's like Yahoo,
Looksmart, Open Directory, NBCi, Altavista, Google, etc they are essential for
internet survival.
HINTS
- Link popularity is a major factor in website
ranking. The more link to your page, the higher the rank. Many search engine
are adopting this method. Link Popularity keep all webmaster honest.
Trade links, use Free for All pages, listing on Directory will boost
ranking.
- Meta tags Due
to abuse using meta tags keywords will not increase your ranking. Content is
everything.
- AltaVista, NorthernLight and InfoSeek are case-sensitive
- Search engines spider crawler scan your content
from the top down. Keep JavaScript, Flash, and other script on the bottom
of the page code for a better chance to increase ranking.
- Robots tags: always used a robot meta-tags to
tell spider what to do with page, and should it proceed. Click
here to learn more about robot - spider tags
- Anything placed within the <!-- --> tags will
not be visible to your user, but will be indexed by HotBot and InfoSeek.
- MetaTag
Generator create meta-tag with ease, great for beginners.
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Title max of 60 characters.
meta description tag max of 150 characters.
meta tag keywords max of 870 characters - only
used keywords present in body
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Placing keywords in ALT tags and comments
AltaVista, InfoSeek, Lycos and WebCrawler read and
index the ALT tags you add to images, so don't forget to include your keywords.
HotBot and Infoseek also index comments hidden within your HTML like this: <!-- tag here -->
Tools
- MetaTag
Generator create meta-tag with ease, great for beginners.
- Check you Meta
Tags for Spamming
Do not understand any of the term below? click
here for Glossary
| Engines |
Meta tags support |
Dscrpt
tag support |
Image Map |
Frame Support |
com- met tags |
Alt
Tag |
Case Sensitive |
Learn Freq of search |
Link Popularity boost rank |
Deep Crawl |
Max
Pages a day |
penalty for Spam |
Tip |
| DirectHit |
yes |
yes |
no |
yes |
|
|
no |
yes |
NO |
yes |
|
yes |
Ranking: how long user stay and
click to your site. |
| AltaVista |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
Yes |
Yes |
yes |
yes |
Yes |
10pg |
yes |
Pages appear within days of submission |
| Excite |
no |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
no |
|
|
yes |
NO |
25 a week |
yes |
take forever to be index |
| Hotbot |
yes |
yes |
no |
NO |
yes |
yes?? |
no |
yes |
No |
NO |
50pg |
yes |
|
| Fast |
No |
No |
? |
yes |
|
|
|
|
yes |
yes |
|
Yes |
|
| Google |
No |
No |
|
NO |
|
|
no |
yes |
yes |
Yes |
2 pg |
yes |
Increase ranking base on link popularity
and clicks |
| Go |
yes |
yes |
|
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
No |
50pg |
yes |
|
| Engines |
Meta tags support |
Dscrpt
tag support |
image map |
Frame support |
com- ment tag |
Alt
Tag |
Case Sensitive |
Learn Freq of search |
Link Popularity boost rank |
Deep Crawl |
Max
Pages a day |
penalty for Spam |
|
| Inktomi |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no?? |
no |
no |
yes |
No |
Yes |
|
Yes |
ranking bas on clicks |
| Infoseek |
yes |
yes |
yes |
No |
YES |
yes |
YES |
|
yes |
no |
50pg |
yes |
|
| IWon
|
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no?? |
no |
no |
yes |
no |
yes |
? |
Yes |
Power by Inktomi engines |
| Lycos
info
|
no |
no |
|
no |
no |
yes |
no |
|
yes |
No |
|
yes |
|
| Web Crawler |
no |
Yes |
|
no |
no |
no |
no |
|
yes |
yes |
|
yes |
No longer accepting submission |
| Northern Light |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
YES |
|
yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Indexes character from top of page |
| Engines |
Meta tags support |
Dscrpt
tag support |
image map |
Frame support |
com- ment tag |
Alt
Tag |
Case Sensitive |
Learn Freq of search |
Link Popularity boost rank |
Deep Crawl |
Max
Pages a day |
penalty for Spam |
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Spam - almost all search engine consider the
follow method as SPAM
- Text same color as body or background.
- Text too small. Font size less than 2
TWO.
- Redirect pages... refresh meta-tag should be
refrain. Instead use JavaScript which most search engine will ignore the
tags and index that page.
- Keywords repeat over and over, use proper
grammar.
- Keywords not related to web page
- Do not used the same meta tag for every page
you create, create unique title, description and keywords for each page.
- Excessive submission, max of 10 pages per
day and wait at least 24hours
before resubmitting any page.
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