How to create Meta Tags.

Meta Tag Descriptions, Titles, and Keywords

The Meta Description Tag is as important as the Meta Title Tag of your page. When a user queries a search engine for information the search engine displays any results that match the search criteria -- It displays the Title and the Description of each web page. One of the most important things that you can do for your web site and your search engine ranking to be indexed in search engines is write a good description and title for your site. If you spend time on creating a title and description or your site and tailor it so that it is definitive, concise, and follows all of required guidelines, your web site should be indexed correctly causing it to rise to the top of the all search results lists.

The Meta Description Tag, Meta Title Tag, and Meta Keyword Tag are located in the Head of the document HTML code. Here is an example of what a Meta Description Tag looks like. You can add your own description under the "content=" portion of the tag. <meta name="description" content="This website tutorial will teach you how to create web pages that are attractive, easy to navigate, and eye-appealing">

When creating your Meta Description Tag you must adhere to the guidelines that the search engines have in place. For example, there is a limitation to the number of characters that you can use in your Meta Description. Another thing to keep in mind is that some of the search engines and directories use the keywords in the description as a way of determining if your site is relevant to the search performed. This is also where concepts and strategies like keyword proximity come into play and is a high factor for your search engine ranking.

Also important like your title tag and description tag is your Meta Name Tag. Here is an example of a Meta Name Tag. <meta name="title" content="FrontPage Web Design">

FrontPage 2003 has made it easy for you to add descriptions, titles, and keywords to your pages without adding tag code information. To add titles, descriptions, and key words right click anywhere on your page, select Page Properties, and General. Just type in the your text and FrontPage creates the tags for you.

Meta Keywords Tags & Keyword Optimization

The Meta Keywords Tag used to be one of the keys to search engine optimization. While this isn't the case anymore, the Keywords Tag is still of some importance and can be used to benefit your web site.

The keywords tag should contain words or phrases that are relevant to the content of your web site, and should stay within the guidelines of the search engines. Some people will either put all of their keywords on each page, or will try to optimize one page for all of the keywords.

The Meta Keywords Tag is not viewable by the visitor -- it resides in the HTML coding of the page. This tag is only used by search engines and directories as a reference to what search results your web site should appear in. If you decide to create the Meta Keywords Tags, remember this: you can separate the keywords by commas, but if you do, do not put a space after the commas. This will cause there search engines to see this as an empty space, and also is wasting space in your code.

This, just as any other tag, must be used properly and within guidelines that the search engines make. <meta name="keywords" content="web,design, tutorial,FrontPage">

Another thing to remember is that there are certain "poison" or "stop" words that the search engines immediately filter out. An example of one of the "stop" words would be "free", "online", or "the."

Here are some helpful Meta Tag Resources.

The TRUE Meta Tag Description & Meta Tag Title Tag for tune up Solution that fit!
http://searchfit.us/meta_tag_description.ht

A Promotion Guide to Meta Tags
http://www.apromotionguide.com/metatag.html

Meta Tags - what, where, when, and why"?
http://searchfit.us/meta_tag_description.htm

Meta Builder
http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html