ste_p23
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Is anyone good with Meta tags and HTML coding as i cant get google to link my Meta Tag to my website and i have no idea why
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Ian
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Mostly because no one bothers with them any more. If you want indexing in Google, get good content.
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ed
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Use keywords and description, they don't do much any more though. You need to have relevant content on the pages and make sure you've got title and alt tags on links and images. You also need an XML sitemap. Use Google Webmaster Tools to help you.
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Steve
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dont even think google bots register meta tags anymore
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ed
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They do look at them, but what they do with the data is another question. You should definitely include keywords and a description as a minimum. Sometimes the description text is used on the search engine results page.
You should only have about 18 keywords per page max. The description should be no more than about 2 or 3 sentences.
[Edited on 01-07-2010 by ed]
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Sam
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quote:
Originally posted by ste_p23
Is anyone good with Meta tags and HTML coding as i cant get google to link my Meta Tag to my website and i have no idea why
Are you talking about meta tags in general or the meta tag Google gives you to identify that the site is owned by you (i.e. in Webmaster Tools)?
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ste_p23
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the meta tag Google gives you to identify that the site is owned by you (i.e. in Webmaster Tools)?
Thats the one im talking about mate 
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ed
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Just copy and paste it into the head section of your pages.
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Use keywords and description, they don't do much any more though. You need to have relevant content on the pages and make sure you've got title and alt tags on links and images. You also need an XML sitemap. Use Google Webmaster Tools to help you.
This is your answer 100%.
Google Webmaster and Google Analytics are your two best friends.
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ste_p23
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Just copy and paste it into the head section of your pages.
Ive tried that and it didnt work would some screen shots make it easier as i may be putting it in the wrong place
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Whittie
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Just stick it inbetween the head tags. There's a google validation there, so if it looks similar to that its all good.
quote:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Title of your website </title>
<Meta name="description" content=" Description of your website" />
<Meta name="keywords" content="Your Website Keywordsl" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="alexaVerifyID" content="blahblahcodecode" />
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="blahblahcodecode" />
<meta name="msvalidate.01" content="blahblahcodecode" />
<META name="y_key" content="blahblahcodecode">
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryCollapsiblePanel.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryCollapsiblePanel.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="animated_favicon1.gif" >
<style type="text/css">
</style></head>
[Edited on 01-07-2010 by Whittie]
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Bart
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if you cant work out to add the
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="eggAVX7TvuBZUcBSgX4n7WKW-2HGLkU" /> information after your <head> tags, then your fcuked
Choose the HTML option, it gives you a link to the html file to download, put this on your website and click verify in google webmaster tools.
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ste_p23
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I really have no idea what any of this crap means im just building it through a freestart template
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