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Meta Tag Assistance

Proper use of meta tags are part of establishing preferred search engine placement. However, they are not the sole criteria that the search engines consider when indexing sites.

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The following tags should be found between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your web pages.

Title
<TITLE>The Dog and Cat Retail Outlet</TITLE>
The title tag is used to attract visitors, briefly describe the website, and assist search engines in categorizing your site.

Keywords
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="dogs,cats,animals,pets,breeds">
The keywords tag is used by some search engines to "understand" what your web page is about.

Not sure what keywords to use? click here

Description
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Dogs and Cats for sale at discount prices. We carry a wide selection of premium breeds.">
The description tag is used by many search engines to describe your web document. This is the text that will describe your site when listed. (see sample listing below)

The above sample tags would look like this when placed within your web page:

<HEAD>
<TITLE>The Dog and Cat Retail Outlet</TITLE>
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="dogs,cats,animals,pets,breeds">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Dogs and Cats for sale at discount prices. We carry a wide selection of premium breeds.">
</HEAD>

Sample of a listing with the above tags:

The Dog and Cat Retail Outlet
Dogs and Cats for sale at discount prices. We carry a wide selection of premium breeds.
http://www.dogsandcats.com

Additional Meta Tags:

There are other meta tags, but those mentioned above are the most important regarding search engine spidering. Additional information that may be found between the <head> and </head> tags are (but not limited to):

<META name="robots" content="NOINDEX">
Most search engine spiders will read and obey the NOINDEX robots tag. The "NOINDEX" command tell the search engines to NOT index this page in their search results. Make sure this tag is not present within the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags if you want the page indexed.

The robots meta tag can have different commands such as "INDEX,FOLLOW" (for those pages you do want indexed and spidered). Note: There are many pages indexed on the engines today that do not utilize the INDEX,FOLLOW robots tag. However, there are very few pages indexed on the engines with the NOINDEX tag present.

<META name="author" content="Your name here">
Not used by search engines. Simply states the author of the site or whatever else someone would like to make claim to authoring.

<META name="revisit after" content="14 days">
This command tells the search engines to revisit and re-spider your site in 14 days. It's up for debate whether the engines actually obey this command, most likely they do not.