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HTML Head Tags
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HEAD Tag
The <head></head> tags define how our web page is seen by
the outside world. The <title></title> and <meta>
tags contain information usually displayed by the search engines.
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Syntax
<HEAD>
title
meta-tags
</HEAD>
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TITLE Tag
The <title></title> tags reside within the
<head></head> tags. The contents of the HTML head tag shows
up in two different places.
First, you find the title information at the top of the browser screen
(above all the task bars). The second place your find title information
is at the top of the definition in most Search Engine results. The rest
of the world is told this is the title of your web page.
Many search engines limit this field to 60 characters. Make sure you get
the important stuff written out first.
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Syntax
<TITLE>
title-of-your-web-page
</TITLE>
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META Tags
The <meta> tags are where the search engines go to see what your
priorities are. A couple of other resources are also looking at meta
tags for other content. You may have several Meta tags for a single
web page.
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Syntax
<META NAME="item-name" CONTENT="items">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="items" CONTENT="item-coding">
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Modifiers
- NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="description"
- This
description is what most search engines tell the world
about your web page.
- NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="key, word, keyword"
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Keywords help define your topic for what the search
engines are looking for. Separate each keyword or phrase
with a comma.
- NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,follow"
- Tells the
Search Engine Robots how to look at your site. The
possible choices here are first INDEX or
NOINDEX. This tells the search engines whether or
not you want them to scan this page and include it in
their indexes. Second term is FOLLOW or
NOFOLLOW, which tells the search engines to
follow the links on the page and index those or not. Not
all search engines recognize this term.
- NAME="RATING" CONTENT="general"
- This helps define
the level of objectionable materials within this web
page. Possible choices here are GENERAL (general
audience... anybody), MATURE (Adult materials...
may be objectionable), RESTRICTED (18 years old
and up) and 14 YEARS (14 years old and up.
- NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="mtg@makemyownwebpage.com"
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Lists the authors name and/or email address.
- NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="Copyright 2002-10"
- Displays
the copyright, trademark or any intellectual property
information about the web page.
- NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="notepad"
- Displays the
publishing tool used to make my own web page.
- HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=index.htm"
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This allows you to forward the visitor to a new page as
listed by the URL term. The timing (just before URL) is
set to how many seconds to pause before forwarding.
I would also recommend visiting the
Internet Content Rating Association
to get a more concise rating for content. This rates your site for
objectionable content. If you have questionable content, please get
your site rated. Some people don't want to see it. It really won't do
you any good to show it to them anyway. If your content is fine
wholesome material, this rating allows your site to be seen without
being blocked by default from many sites.
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