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ceeyahd1
Joined: Feb 06, 2004
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 15:07
I want to start off by saying Happy Thanksgiving to all. I am in the process of upgrading my website and I used XARA webstyle template, I did not realize that I did not add my meta tags until the website completely diappeared from search engine. I am in the process of doing my tags now but I must be doing something wrong because when I insert the tags I lose some of the design on the top of my page. Here is what I have and where I placed the tags, can someone let me know where is the correct placement and as always, you guys have been a lot of help to me:
Is this correct? and how do I insert the tags without interfering with the XARA do not edit line?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<!-- Information generated and read by Xara Webstyle. Do not edit this line. [Calibrate (Theme);Electron tubes;Theme Color 1;6723993;themecolour1;Theme Color 2;32767;themecolour2;Background Color;16777215;themecolour3;Theme Color 4;16777215;themecolour4;Theme Color 5;0;themecolour5;Heading & Logo Text;3684408;themecolour6] -->
<!-- Template design (c) Xara Ltd 2003 -->
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta NAME="Keywords" Content=" electron tubes, vacuum tubes, broadcast tubes, industrial tubes,
heat sealing, induction heating, induction sealing, rf heating, rf sealing">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Greenstone USA, Manufacturer & Distributor of Vacuum Tubes for all applications.">
<title>GREENSTONE USA, Manufacturer/Distributor of Vacuum Tubes & Vacuum Capacitors</title>
<meta name="Revisit-After" content="7 Days">
</head>
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dudibob
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
# Posts: 1472
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 15:13
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> and
<meta name="Revisit-After" content="7 Days"> isn't neccesserary (hope I spelt that right :s) robots will search your site even if you don't say anything 
seems like all that Xara ltd stuff isn't needed either.
I'm not sure if you are meant to put metatags in a specific order, but the <title>blah blah blah</title> should be above your keywords and content tags
I'm not sure why it's messing with your design tho :s
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ceeyahd1
Joined: Feb 06, 2004
# Posts: 71
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 15:28
dudibob:
Thanks a lot for your response. I don't know why earlier I was having a problem taking out the XARA line but now it seems like it does not matter, but I still lose a little bit of design on top of the page when I enetr my tags. Are these tags in the correct order. Again thanks for your help:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>GREENSTONE USA, Manufacturer/Distributor of Vacuum Tubes & Vacuum Capacitors</title>
<meta NAME="Keywords" Content=" electron tubes, vacuum tubes, broadcast tubes, industrial tubes,
heat sealing, induction heating, induction sealing, rf heating, rf sealing">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Greenstone USA, Manufacturer & Distributor of Vacuum Tubes for all applications.">
</head>
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SportsGuy
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Joined: Aug 30, 2002
# Posts: 3603
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 15:34
The order isn't as important as what's in there. Hit these highlights at least:
<TITLE>Keyword as singular and keyword as plural</TITLE>
<meta name="description" content="Relevant description working in both versions of the keyword/phrase above">
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="keyword, keyword, keyword - do not go crazy in here">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="index,follow">
<meta name="robots" CONTENT="index,follow">
<meta name="robot" CONTENT="index,follow">
<meta name="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright mycompanysname Inc. 2005. All Rights Reserved.">
<meta name="revisit-after" CONTENT="1">
Heck, you could even leave out the robots & Googlebot stuff - just make sure to have a robots.txt file on your root directory.
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dudibob
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
# Posts: 1472
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 15:35
yea, that looks alright now
:D
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ceeyahd1
Joined: Feb 06, 2004
# Posts: 71
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 15:39
Sports guy:
Thanks for the info. What do you mean to have a robots.txt in the root directory. I am sorry to sound stupid I have built my website from information gathered on this forum and was able to get it in the top 5 in all search engines and I have another website that I am working on that I want to make sure I use the ltest information so I don't have to go back and spend a whole day editing. I live in the country and I only have dial up so the smallest thisng takes forever. Thanks in advance.
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ceeyahd1
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# Posts: 71
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 15:41
Thanks dudibob.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
# Posts: 10465
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 15:42
The order, as shown below, is about optimum:
Your document should begin with a !DOCTYPE (this tells the browser what sort of HTML is in the file) followed by the <html> and <head> tags:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
For your page to actually be valid you MUST declare the character encoding (lets the browser know whether to use A to Z letters (latin), or Chinese, Japanese, Thai, or Arabic script, or some other character set) used for the page, with something like:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
There are also other schemes such as UTF-8 and many others.
It is also a good idea to declare what human language the page is in, using:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN-GB">
The language and country codes come from ISO 4217 and ISO 3166. This is useful for online translation tools as well. Change the "en" and "gb" to whatever language and country you need.
You need a <title> element for the page:
<title> Your Title Here </title>
This is displayed at the top of the browser window, and stored as the name of the bookmark if someone bookmarks the page URL in their browser. Most importantly, it is the <title> tag that is indexed and displayed by search engines in the search results page (SERPs).
You need the meta description tag, as this is very important for search engines, and it is useful but not vital to have a meta keywords tag:
<meta name="Description" content=" Your Description Here. ">
<meta name="Keywords" content=" your, keyword, list, here ">
Most search engines do obey the robots meta tag. The default robots action is index, follow (index the page, follow all outbound links) so if you want something else (3 possibilities) then add the robots tag to the page in question. If you want to exclude whole directories then use the robots.txt file for this instead of marking every HTML file with the tag.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
The last parts of your header should have your links to external style sheets and external javascript files:
Use this if the stylesheet is for all browsers:
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" src="/path/file.css">
Use this for style sheet that you want to hide from older browsers, as older browsers often crash on seeing CSS:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css"> @import url(/path/file.css); </style>
Use this for the javascript:
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/path/file.js"></script>
End the header with this:
</head>
<body>
and then continue with the body page code.
It is as simple as that.
Code within the page:
I use: <a href="somepage.html" title="some text here"></a> for links.
I use <img src="somefile.png" alt="some text"> for images.
Headings are done with <hx></hx> tags, properly used from <h1></h1> downwards.
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dudibob
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
# Posts: 1472
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 15:54
wow, good detailed post there
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SportsGuy
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Joined: Aug 30, 2002
# Posts: 3603
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 16:06
Yeah, that pretty much covers it...
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ceeyahd1
Joined: Feb 06, 2004
# Posts: 71
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 16:17
g1smd, It is great to hear from you again, your suggestions last year have really helped me put my website in the top ten and it is still there right now. I apologize for still asking newbie questions but please understand that I only work on the website when needed. I have put the tags as you suggested, can you let me know if this is all I need and I did not understand the last part on code within a page, is this necessary? this is what I eneded up with:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN-GB">
<title> 5949A </title>
<meta name="Description" content="Manufacturer & Distributor of Vacuum Tubes & Vacuum Capacitors ">
<meta name="Keywords" content="Vacuum Tubes, Vacuum Capacitors, Magnetrons ">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" src="/path/file.css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css"> @import url(/path/file.css); </style>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/path/file.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
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ceeyahd1
Joined: Feb 06, 2004
# Posts: 71
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 16:50
I enterred these tags on my page and it changed the layout of the page, I did have to add the 2 frontpage lines I thought that was the problem but it was not. what I am not sure what I did wrong.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN-GB">
<title>2J55</title>
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Manufacturer & Distributor of Vacuum Tubes.">
<meta name="Keywords" Content=" electron tubes, vacuum tubes, broadcast tubes, industrial tubes,
heat sealing, induction heating, induction sealing, rf heating, rf sealing">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" src="/path/file.css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css"> @import url(/path/file.css); </style>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/path/file.js"><script>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
</head>
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
# Posts: 10465
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 16:54
Read my long post again - carefully.
You only need the robots line if you want to disallow something, otherwise omit the line.
Do you use CSS? If you do, then either import or link to the CSS file (not both). If no CSS, omit those lines.
Do you use Javascript? If you do, then the example shows how to link to an external JS file. Omit if no JS.
You can improve the page title, to include a few more words, not just the model number.
For the DOCTYPE line, you may need the full version instead:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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ceeyahd1
Joined: Feb 06, 2004
# Posts: 71
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 17:04
g1smd, got it fixed. You guys have a great Thanksgiving and thanks for all your help I really appreciate that you guys have the patience to deal with newbies like myself.
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