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Butler will fetch all metatags to store in our database before submission. The program
version contains a useful metatag generator.
Here are some hints about how to optimize your metatags:
- Metatags should be placed between the <HEAD> </HEAD>
tags on your HTML-page.
- Title: This Tag should contain enough characters or
keywords to be catchy enough to draw some attention, will show up on the first line on
many search engines. The recommended maximum number of characters for this tag is 60.
Example: <title>TopSitePromote, Top ranked Site Promotion and
Submission</title>
Note! Altavista does not index pages without the title metatag or pages
with same title!
- Description: A brief description of your site, containing
keywords that you want to promote. Shows up under the title on many search engines. Our
recommended maximum number of characters for this tag is 150.
Example:<meta name="description"
content="TopSitePromote is the free top ranked site promotion and submission engine.
Submit your site to the top of the most popular search engines for FREE.">
- Keywords: A maximum of 255 chars are stored in our
database. Choose with care, try to avoid repeated words (maximum 3 are recommended).
Keywords and keyphrases should be separated by commas.
Example: <meta name="keywords" content="site
submission, website submit, site promote, web site promotion, submission, promotion,
registration, free, advertising, marketing, searchengines, website promotion, website
submission, internet marketing advertising, url, search engine submissions, search engine
registration, search engine secrets">
- The following tags are optional:
<meta name="revisit" content="14 days">
- tells the spider/robot to return for reindexing every 14 days.
<meta name="robots" content="index">
- tells the spider/robot to walk down every link on your pages.
WHY ARE META TAGS IMPORTANT?
Meta tags give important information about your web site to search engines, enabling
them to index your site correctly. They therefore assist in getting your site listed when
surfers search on a word or phrase that occurs on your site. They are certainly NOT a
magic solution to getting high rankings in search engine listings, but they certainly help
- and without them you won't get listed anywhere.
The meta tag most people concentrate their attention on is the 'keywords' tag, thinking
that by listing every keyword they can think of their site will automatically be listed
whenever anyone searches for that word. Needless to say, this tactic does not work. What
you must do is to list RELEVANT keywords and phrases: those that ACTUALLY OCCUR on your
web site. These will increase your 'relevancy rating' with search engines; in other words,
if your keywords are relevant to your site's actual contents, you are more likely to get
listed for any given search term.
Because both the 'title' and 'description' tags will actually appear on the lists when
search engines display your URL, it is vitally important to get them right. An untitled
page is a wasted opportunity, and a poor or irrelevant description will simply irritate
users.
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