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Adding Meta Tags In FrontPage

Title - Entered on the General tab
- Some search engines will display the text located in the Title Tag when your web page is listed in a search
- Title tags show up in people's bookmarks
- Should be between 5 and 20 words
- Use your Company/Organization name plus keywords
- Cut & Paste your Title in HTML view so it's just under the <head> tag.
Description (Meta Tag) - Use Add for User Variable on the Custom tab
- Some search engines display this as the summary of your Web page
- Not all search engines use this tag
- Try to limit your Description to less than 200 characters.
Keywords (Meta Tag) - Use Add for User Variable on the Custom tab
- One way to maximize the usefulness of keywords is to incorporate singular and plural cases of words as well as active and passive verbs
- Do not excessively repeat keywords tag as search engines may penalize you for this
- Not all search engines use this tag
- Try to limit your keywords between 800 and 1,000 characters
- Don't repeat words more than 3 times

Avoid using the HTTP-EQUIV REFRESH tag because many search engines will not index the page. Also make sure there's adequate text on your page so search engines like Excite will index it properly. Excite is one of those that do not use Meta Tags.

The best thing to do is to submit each page to the search engines, despite them not saying so.

You can have Submit-It analyze your Meta Tags Free. Check to see if the tags used by Search Engines, Spiders and Robots are in the correct format and requirements. Enter your URL in the form and check for:

Here's a some other places to check your Meta Tags....Try any of these free services.

WebSite Garage - Excellent all round website for all website creators.
ABS - META Tag Analyzer

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