What is the use ?
META Tags are special tags used in HTML language. They let search
engines like Altavista, Yahoo or Hotbot to index your site faster
and in a more efficient way. Half of the internet users use search
engines so you have to pay attention to your meta-tags.
To know
META tags must not be cut: don't use <BR> (break space) in
your meta tags!.
<TITLE>
Tags (special case) |
Title
All the pages of a website require a title, this is more efficient
for search engine submissions. With NPDS, the site'title is the same for all the pages. You can change this parameter in Preferences and in the pages.php (/themes directory);
. Don't use more than 100 letters!
Note : Using one of your keywords in the title is a good thing,
your site will be indexed in a better way.
Meta "Author"
This tag is not commonly used by search engines. Only Nomade
uses this.
Meta "Owner"
This tag says who owns the website, equals the name of author.
Meta "Reply-to"
This tag indicates the email of the author. It allows visitors who
saved your page on the computer to contact you.
Meta "Language"
This tags indicated the language of your website. It is useful as
most english search engines have included Languge as search criteria.
Meta "Description"
This tag is where you should put the desciption of your website.
Just one sentence!. And do not put more than 200 letters!.
Meta "Keywords"
This tag deals with keywords refering to the page / website. Use
commas to separate them. You can put 100 words (or 1000 letters).
Meta "Rating"
This si about the targeted audience. From General to Mature or Restricted
or 14 years.
Meta "Distribution"
It deals with the website: is it available for everyone (Global)
or is it restricted (Local).
Meta "Copyright"
This tag is not used by search engines but it provides the
copyright information (the use of the document).
Meta "Robots"
This is where ou tell robots (sent by search engines) wether they
can index all your pages or not, when do they have to come back
and check updates... .
Parameters are :
- All : All pages from your site will be indexed
and analysed.
- None : No pages will be indexed.
- Index : Only the index page will be indexed.
- NoIndex : The robots will index all
pages but the index.
- Follow : Let the robots to browse your site
using the links in your pages.
- NoFollow : Browsing your site using the links
is not allowed.
Meta "Revisit-After"
When the robot should come back to your site. Can't be before 14
days.
Meta "Content-Type"
This is used by your browser and gives information about the language
fonts. For english pages, it is the occidental caracters set (text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1).
Meta "Content-Script-Type"
This is used by your browser and gives information about the scriptsused
in the page ( text/javascript).
Meta "Content-Style-Type"
This is used by your browser and gives information about the styles
used in the page ( text/css).
Meta "Identifier-url"
This tag gives the information about the URL of your site. It echoes
the URL set in NPDS preferences.
Meta "Generator"
No real use for search engines. It's about the tool you used to
build your site (golive, dreamweaver, NPDS)
Meta "Pragma"
Disable the caching of the pages (mostly for Netscape).No-cache
means the page won't be cached (useful for PHP pages as there is
a constant update)
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