Adding tags using dreamweaver

itsmefolks | 21:52 Wed 07th Mar 2012 | Internet

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I have a website managed by myself which was made by someone who I have lost contact with. My problem is, how do I add tags so as to broaden the search criterea?? I hope that makes sense?? What I am trying to do is broaden the word search base. Ie for a food web site how do I add words associated with food such as bread/cakes/rice etc etc which people may enter to the search engine??? Thank you in advance.

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Buenchico

See here:
http://www.siteground...amweaver/metatags.htm

Chris

wildwood

In addition, I believe that search engines do not take much notice of keywords nowadays. A handy way to get Google to pick up your site is to use the desired 'tags' as the first text in the <body>. This can easily be achieved by using the smallest font and using the same colour as the background so the text can not be seen by viewers.

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Cheers folks. Like the sound of the hidden text. Very clever. Cheers again.

rojash

Hidden text used to be very popular. The reason that it's not now, is that most search engines regard it as cheating (which it is), and are likely to reduce rather than increase your ranking.

wildwood

I can't see any way how a search engine would detect that text is thus hidden and it is not cheating.

beso

rojash is correct. Search engines worked out the trick of using the same foreground and backgroufd coulour almost as soon as it was implimented and will downgrade the site.

Wildwood: Anyone who can't understand how the searh engine spider can determine this should not be answering questions about the web. (Hint: A browser reads tags to render the page.)

beso

Metatags are largely irrelevant. The primary way search engines rate pages is on the links to and from other pages relevant to the subject.

However don't think you can fool them by subscribing to a "link farm". Like every other way people try to trick the spiders, setting up links from spurious pages will downgrade your site.

wildwood

//Wildwood: Anyone who can't understand how the searh engine spider can determine this should not be answering questions about the web. (Hint: A browser reads tags to render the page.)//

So are you one of the expert employees of Google or some other top search engine? Cause outside of these, nobody knows exactly how they work.
Of course, you do, so please explain how.

How come you are not having a go at Chris, about the metatags (in your opinion)? I smell a stalker.

beso

Because you said you could not see how a search engine would be able to determine how text would be rendered in a browser.

Isn't it obvious? The tags that tell the browser how to display the text are just as easily read by the search engine spider.

The invisible text trick was used briefly in the 1990s but was almost immediately countered by the search engines.

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