----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Firshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Jan Jones Book
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 at 22:42:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > >>Quanta web page header > >Yes, the meta tags are important in getting search engines to spot you. > >Mentioning your subjects in the page. Links to and from. Numbers of > >requests for your subjects coupled with how often you update the page > >etc are all important. Search engines are pretty simple minded in some > >ways, pretty horrible to figure out in some ways too. > Most important is the bare text after <body> > That is what gets picked up in -all- my web site mentions, not the META > tags (even 'description' seems ignored). I gather robots mainly ignore > those now, as people were putting really stupid ones with a vast number > of words. > > It is vital to look at the <body> text from the start and make sure say > the first 25 words make sense. > > For instance Google has: > > "TF Services. Sinclair QL support. Tony Firshman's Home Page. December > 5, 2004. > This page holds details of/links to current TF Services ... " > > Tony > -- > QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 > tony@<surname>.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk > Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 > TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Somewwhere I read that these programs check to see whether the web page contains the meta tags and if not ignores them. I could be years out of date _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
