My Meta tags and Robots

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Tom Pepper Willett

Have you submitted the site to the search engines?

BTW, it can take weeks or months to get listed.


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| Do you know why my following website has not been picked
| up by robots?
|
| http://streetwhispers.com
|
| What changes do I need to make for it to be picked up.
| Thanks
|
 
S

Steve Easton

Add a robots meta tag to the head section of every page you want indexed:
<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,follow">

Then using notepad create a file named robots.txt that contains this:

User-agent: *

Place the robots.txt file in the root of your web ( where your home page lives ) and then "Publish"

Then be patient, it can take a few months to get "indexed."

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C

Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

That link is super cool!
Thanks Murray!!

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S

Steve Easton

Did you scroll down??

iirc search engines spider actual text on a page more that anything else these days.

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G

Guest

If you go to the page you would notice there is a lot of
content on that page. Also I have submitted the webpage
to google. Should I be submitting to other places also?
 
M

Murray

Oops - you're right. But the problem is that there is no semantic markup
there (<h1,2,3, etc.>, alt and title attributes, etc.) to tell the search
engines what content is important.

As I understand it, the meta tags are only fluff (if they are used at all).
 
M

Murray

Chris:

Yes - I like it alot. Interestingly, it's not linked from the main site,
though!
 
G

Guest

I am a bit lost with your reply. Could you please give me
some more details. My apologies for being so dense.
-----Original Message-----
Add a robots meta tag to the head section of every page you want indexed:
<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,follow">

Then using notepad create a file named robots.txt that contains this:

User-agent: *

Place the robots.txt file in the root of your web (
Click to expand...
where your home page lives ) and then "Publish"
 
M

Mike Mueller

Mya,

There are 2 things that get your site listed:
#1- links going to your site. For the most part, the more
the better
#2-submit your site. Google, DMOZ.org, and Zeal.com are
good places to start. Zeal picked me in a matter of weeks,
and they feed MSN and others. Soon yahoo & google had me
in. DMOZ took over a year to get me listed. By that time
with incoming links I had a google page rank of 5

Mike



MYA wrote:
: Do you know why my following website has not been picked
: up by robots?
:
: http://streetwhispers.com
:
: What changes do I need to make for it to be picked up.
: Thanks
 
C

Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

I found that out too. ;-) They should though since their front end web is
kind of "niche" stuff. At the very least they should put some google
adsense ads or something to make up for the obvious time they've invested
in it. They might even want to sell the script. I'd buy it to put on my
site just to impress clients!

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Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

Make More Money with Less Work
Let Your Clients Control Their Content With Just A Browser!
http://contentseed.com/
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C

Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

my understanding is that google doesn't look at the meta keywords at all.
some of the others do, but the <title> tag seems to be the "biggie".

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Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

Make More Money with Less Work
Let Your Clients Control Their Content With Just A Browser!
http://contentseed.com/
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M

Murray

#1- links going to your site. For the most part, the more
the better
Click to expand...

Actually, I would qualify this to say "links going to your site from pages
that are highly ranked". Search engines don't like 'webrings' and can
penalize you for participating, as I understand it.
 
S

Steve Easton

If you place the following meta tag between <head> and </head> on the pages it tells the robots to
index the page and follow the links.
<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,follow">

The robots.txt file gives the robots permission to index your web site.

Open notepad, paste this: User-agent: * into the new notepad file. save it with the name robots.txt
and then place the file in the same location in your web that contains your home page.
Then publish your web.


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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer
 
M

Mike Mueller

Murray,

That is why I tried to qualify that. Google may reduce
your page rank if a link coming to you comes from a
'blacklisted site'.

Mike


:> #1- links going to your site. For the most part, the more
: > the better
:
: Actually, I would qualify this to say "links going to your
site from pages
: that are highly ranked". Search engines don't like
'webrings' and can
: penalize you for participating, as I understand it.
:
: --
: Murray
:
message
: : > Mya,
: >
: > There are 2 things that get your site listed:
: > #1- links going to your site. For the most part, the
more
: > the better
: > #2-submit your site. Google, DMOZ.org, and Zeal.com are
: > good places to start. Zeal picked me in a matter of
weeks,
: > and they feed MSN and others. Soon yahoo & google had
me
: > in. DMOZ took over a year to get me listed. By that
time
: > with incoming links I had a google page rank of 5
: >
: > Mike
: >
: >
: >
: > MYA wrote:
: > : Do you know why my following website has not been
picked
: > : up by robots?
: > :
: > : http://streetwhispers.com
: > :
: > : What changes do I need to make for it to be picked up.
: > : Thanks
: >
: >
:
:
 
G

Guest

Mike
listing a site on zeal is like going to school. One has
to answer their questions and if one fails one cant
submit the site. Or am I doing something wrong
 
T

Tom Pepper Willett

See: www.searchenginewatch.com

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===
Tom "Pepper" Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---
About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
FrontPage 2003 Product Information:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
Understanding FrontPage:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;fp10se
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| Is it a good idea to submit a website to more then one
| search engine.
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Have you submitted the site to the search engines?
| >
| >BTW, it can take weeks or months to get listed.
| >
| >
| >--
| >===
| >Tom "Pepper" Willett
| >Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| >---
| >About FrontPage 2003:
| > http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?
| assetid=FX01085802
| >FrontPage 2003 Product Information:
| >
| http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.
| mspx
| >Understanding FrontPage:
| >
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
| >FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Support Center:
| > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-
| us;fp10se
| >===
| message
| >| >| Do you know why my following website has not been picked
| >| up by robots?
| >|
| >| http://streetwhispers.com
| >|
| >| What changes do I need to make for it to be picked up.
| >| Thanks
| >|
| >
| >
| >.
| >
 

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