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How to Use Meta Meta tags In Look for Website Promotion

If you view the HTML sources for the web pages on the thesitewizard.com, you would have noticed that they all contain META tags. META tags influence the way some search engines list and index web pages.

There are at least three META tags that you will want to use to make sure your page is search engine ready.

What are Meta tags good for?

For search engines that support them, META tags are used in at least three ways:

They are used to describe your site in the search results. For example, if you do not have a META Description tag for your page, some search engines will simply grab the first few lines of your page to serve as the description of your site. This description is more important than you may think. If you were searching for “nosuchwordasthis”, which of the following two items listed would you be more likely to click?
- Nosuchwordasthis.com: Ridiculous and Impossible Words
  Home About Example.com Contact Us Links Download FAQ
- Nosuchwordasthis.com: Ridiculous and Impossible Words
  Some of the incredible words that netizens have come up with this year, along with their supposed meanings.
The first item above had a snippet from what appears to be its top menu in the lines below the website title. The second item has a description which tells the person searching exactly what the site is all about.

If you do not put a description tag, what appears in the listing would be likely to be whatever first appears on your page, usually the alt text of some graphic or banner or perhaps your top menu.
There are search engines which also look for a META Robots tag to determine how they index your site. For example, if Google does not encounter such a tag, it will assume that it can index and follow the links on the page. If you want some other behaviour from Google, you will have to use a META tag to specify it.
In the old days, they were used to determine which keywords your page will be listed under. So if you want your page to be listed in a search engine when the user searches for the term “nosuchwordasthis”, the latter should be present in your META Keywords tag as well as in your document. I’m not sure however if any search engine still uses this tag today.

There are other META tags, which individual search engines recognize. However, the tags listed here are the main tags relevant to most search engines.

How to Use the META Description Tag

A META Description tag, for those of you who write your web pages using raw HTML code, looks like the following:

Give a brief description of your page in this tag. Bear in mind that this description (or part of it) will be displayed in the search engine results so try to make sure you phrase it in such a way that the person searching can tell at a glance that he’s found the correct page for his search. Minimize irrelevancies and put the essentials near the beginning of the description so that if the search engine only accepts the initial (say) 150 characters, the essential parts of your description will still be displayed.

Not all search engines use this tag. For example, Google normally only displays the text surrounding the matching keyword that the searcher used.

How to Use the META Robots Tag

Although this Meta tag is seldom mentioned in search engine promotion guides, it is important if you want certain search engines to crawl through your website using the links on the page you submit. Since adding it involves little additional effort, you might as well do it while you add the other tags.

In general, you will add the following line to your web page if you want the search engine to index your page and follow the links on it.

In cases where you do not want it to index your page simply use “noindex” instead of “index”. Likewise if you don’t want the engine to crawl through the links on your page, use “nofollow” instead of “follow”.

Most, if not all, search engines today recognize this tag.

Furthermore, if you do not want the search engine to keep a cache of your page on their servers, you can affix a “noarchive” value to the “content” attribute, such as in the example below:

Google, for example, will see the “noarchive” value and not keep a copy of your page in its cache.

How to Use the META Keywords Tag

The Meta Keywords tag used to be an important way to get your page listed under specific keywords under the search engines. Nowadays, however, major search engines like Google and Alta Vista ignore this tag, and the keywords tag no longer has the significance it used to have in the early days of the web. You can read specific details about what is important to these search engines in their ranking of your page in the following articles:

Google Search Engine Positioning Tips
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/google.shtml
More Tips on Google Search Engine Results Placement
http://www.thesitewizard.com/sitepromotion/moregoogletips.shtml
Alta Vista Search Engine Placement Tips
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/altavistaranking.shtml

I no longer use this tag on my new pages, since it’s mostly useless nowadays.

The META Keywords tag should be placed in the <head> portion of your web page. If you are using a WYSIWYG editor, there is usually some way for you to enter the keywords on the page using a separate dialog box. If you are typing it yourself into your web page, the tag looks like the following:

In place of the phrase “put your keywords here”, you should of course give a list of your keywords. The keywords should be comma-delimited. That is, if you want to your page to be listed when the user searches for “medical help” and “free diagnosis”, you should use the following tag:

Each search engine has its own limit to the number of characters in your keyword list. The general advice given is not to make your list longer than you need it to be. Some search engine experts recommend that you do not exceed 1000 characters in your list. In the days when it still recognized the keyword tag, Alta Vista did not use anything beyond 500 characters.

A word of caution. Although you might think that this is a good place to put in common misspellings of keywords that you spelt correctly on your page, you should probably note that in the days when search engines indexed the keyword list, some of them penalized web pages that contain words that cannot be found on the page itself. They were probably trying to guard against abuse by people trying to “spam” the index. The latter have been known to dump every conceivable keyword they can think of even if it is unrelated to their web page. Unfortunately, this policy also penalizes legitimate site owners who really want to catch those common misspellings of their page content.

You can read more information about this in the article Your Website’s Spelling and the Search Engines at http://www.thesitewizard.com/sitepromotion/spellingerrors.shtml

You should also not repeat a particular keyword too many times in your tag. Again, some engines used to make a note of such things and penalize your site. Note that it is possible to accidentally repeat a keyword multiple times when you use a word in different phrases: eg, a tag that has the following keyword list, “search engine promotion, search engine ranking, search engine placement”, would have repeated the words “search engine” three times even though they occur in different phrases. Some repetition is apparently acceptable (possibly even up to three times), although excessive repetition is regarded as “spam”.

Practical Guide to Inserting Meta Tags

For those using a visual web editor to manage your site, you may want to check out the following tutorials on how you can actually insert the Meta tags using the editor:

How to Insert Meta Tags to Your Site in Dreamweaver
How to Add Meta Tags to Your Website Using Nvu or KompoZer

So how important is the Meta tag?

Although the benefits conferred by using the various meta tags on your page are not substantial, they are nonetheless useful in controlling how the search engines index and list your page. Since tags like the description and robots tag require very little effort to add to your page, it is probably a good idea to add at least these tags to your pages.

How the Meta Information Tag May Damage Your Website

Although I have written a number of articles on purpose of the meta description tag and how you can add it to your website, I’ve begun to have second thoughts about using it, so much so that I’m now wondering if it’s better in many cases not to include the tag altogether. This article discusses the problems that the meta tag may pose for your website, and some practical ways in which you can avoid the problems mentioned.

Video Tutorial Meta Information Tag

Preliminary: Context of This Discussion

For those who are not familiar with the meta description tag, you may want to read my previous articles on this subject:

If you don’t know what a META description tag is, and how to use it, you should first read my article on How to Use Meta Tags In Search Engine Promotion.
Dreamweaver users can find a practical guide on how to insert this tag, among others, in my tutorial on How to Insert Meta Tags to Your Site in Dreamweaver.
If you use Nvu or KompoZer, the practical guide for inserting the META description tag can be found in the tutorial on How to Add Meta Tags to Your Website Using Nvu or KompoZer.

Current Problems with Using the Meta Description Tag

Although the meta description tag is definitely useful in determining what the search engines print underneath your page title, judging from the results of various queries that I’ve used lately, it seems like Google is becoming more serious in using your meta description tag where available. Or perhaps it has always done that, and now more sites are becoming more aware of meta description tags and are adding them (to detrimental effects).

The problem with the meta description tag is that if your meta description tag is very generic, and the search engine uses it, it can lead to your site appearing less relevant to people searching for a term. In particular, your site may end up looking like a spammy site to some users, making them skip your link in the results and go on to another site.

Let me illustrate. Suppose you were searching for “widget XYZ review”, and got the following results. (Note: this is just an example. The underlined blue text in the box below are not clickable — they merely simulate the appearance of a search results page.)

Widget XYZ Review
Widget XYZ reviews – top widget reviews and analyses.

Widget XYZ Review
Read reviews of widget XYZ from users who have tried it.

Widget XYZ Review
Look up XYZ reviews and ratings from past and present customers.

Widget XYZ Review
When I first reviewed widget XYZ, I thought it to be a useful tool for creating a beautiful and functional website. Over time, however, I found…

If you received a such a listing, which link would you click? The first three sites have meta description tags with the key phrase you searched for, and as a result, have their meta description displayed underneath their site title. They seem incredibly relevant to the search phrase. But many seasoned searchers will instinctively distrust the first three links, even if they were really from useful, legitimate websites with genuine reviews. The reason is simple: they have clicked links that had such generic text in the past, only to find that these links led to spammy sites with very little useful content.

But look at the fourth site. The site did not have any meta description tag, so Google had to grab content from the page itself to display as the snippet. The result is a piece of text that seems like a genuine review, rather than some thinly disguised advertising site.

Not all sites that look spammy in the search engine results are actually spammy. The problem is that their meta description tags are so generic that they make the page look spammy when the pages are listed, since spammy sites often use the same generic text in their actual page content. Sadly, a number of my own sites’ pages also suffer from this very defect, since I’ve often been too lazy to think up of some descriptive text after writing the actual article. Judging from the searches I’ve done recently, it looks like my sites are not alone in having this problem.

Possible Solutions to the Spammy-Looking Meta Descriptions

Here are some possible ways to avoid having your site look spammy in the search engine results when it has real content.

Don’t Dump Lists of Keywords into Your Meta Description Tag

Nothing looks more spammy in a site’s snippet than long lists of keywords dumped unceremoniously into a meta description tag. Don’t do it.
Put Real Content in Your Meta Description Tag

Take time to write content in your META description tag instead of writing an overview of the page’s content. That is, instead of writing “Review of Widget XYZ”, write “I found widget XYZ to be a…” (etc). One way to do this is to copy your some of the most relevant sentences on your page into the tag.
Remove Your Meta Description Tag

Instead of putting some of the text on your page into the tag, another way is to just remove the tag altogether. This will cause search engines like Google to scour your page’s content looking for relevant snippets to place in the search results. There is no guarantee as to what it will find, or whether the text will even be relevant. But if your page is filled with normal sentences rather than just bits of text like “Add to Shopping Cart”, there is a chance that you’ll get a better snippet than just some short, generic “Review of Widget XYZ”.

Note that you may not want to do this if your page is just a shopping cart checkout page, since such pages usually have very little text other than things like “Quantity”, “Check out” and the like.

Is It Time to Panic?

If you are the sort who is inclined to panic, and want to rush off to fix your site after reading this article, consider the following points.

The search engines fine-tune their algorithms incredibly frequently to adjust to the realities of the web. What is true today, may not be true tomorrow. If you react every time they make a tweak, you may be slaving away unnecessarily on things that may no longer need to be attended to in the future. Google, in particular, tries to figure out what most webmasters do and adjust to it, so there is always the possibility that your meta description woes may one day be an issue of the past without your having to do anything. But then again, they may not.
The Meta description text isn’t always used in the search engine snippet. If the user searches for “Widget XYZ” and the phrase doesn’t occur anywhere in your meta description even though you have such a tag, Google will use an actual occurrence of the phrase “widget XYZ” from your page’s content for its snippet. In other words, there may not be any cause for panic, since (potential) visitors may not even search for the words that appear in your tag.

Second Thoughts on the Meta Description Tag

Although the meta description tag is often seen as a way to help your site in the search engine results, it may actually harm your site depending on how you implement the tag on your web pages. My current sentiment on this is that if you are not sure how to craft a good meta description tag for your page, leave the tag out and let your content do the talking.

Why Don’t You Use the Key terms Meta Tag on Your Website?

On a few (rare) occasions, some people have written to ask me why I don’t use the keywords meta tag on the pages on thesitewizard.com. One of them even asked me how he could hide his keyword meta tag so that his visitors could not see what keywords he placed in it. This article is an attempt to answer this question.

What is a Keywords Meta Tag?

The keywords meta tag is a type of HTML tag that webmasters place on their web pages. It generally looks like this:

It is not displayed by the web browser.

Why The Keywords Tag is Now History

To understand why I no longer use the keywords tag, a little history is in order. Note that the dates below are rough dates, based on my vague recollection of the events. I didn’t bother to record the actual dates when it happened and it was a very long time ago.

1995-1997: The Rise and Abuse of the Keyword Tag

In the old days before Google, back when Alta Vista was considered one of the ruling search engines, the keywords tag was used by webmasters to tell search engines that the words listed in the tag can be regarded as being part of the content of the web page. It was indexed in addition to the words that appeared on the web page itself. It had its uses, such as to place common spelling mistakes of keywords on the page.

As you may have guessed, there was widespread abuse of this tag, with some webmasters dumping words that had nothing to do with their web page in the hopes of attracting visitors to their site. Others saturated the tag with terms they considered important, in the hopes of improving the keyword density of their site.
Circa 1997: The Demise of the Keyword Tag

The end result of this was that, one by one, the search engines took steps to end the keyword abuse by not indexing anything in that tag. If my memory serves, the last to do so was Alta Vista. They even took it one step further: words occuring in the keyword tag that did not also occur on the web page itself would cause the page to be penalised.

Google was born around this period. Learning its lessons from the search engines that came before, Google simply ignored the keywords tag. It continues such a policy to this day.

In other words, by the end of the 1990s, the keyword tag was no longer useful for any purpose.

What to Do with the Keywords Tag

Although my older pages on thesitewizard.com have half-hearted attempts at including keyword tags, all my newer pages do not. Those older pages either pre-date the death of the keywords tag era or were based on an older template of my website that had the keyword meta tag. With the updating of my site design somewhere after the turn of the century (or whereabouts), all my new pages no longer have the tag.

If you also have old pages with keyword tags, you can do the same as I did: just ignore them. Alternatively, if you can be bothered, you can also remove them at your leisure when you happen to update the page. They neither do your site any harm, nor do they help it. It’s the equivalent of adding nonsensical HTML tags to your web page: they will be ignored by everyone, search engines and browsers alike.

If you have a new web page, don’t even bother with the keywords tag. If you feel you must use a meta tag somewhere, see my article How to Use Meta Tags for Search Engine Promotion for more useful ones instead. The tags mentioned there are still recognized by today’s engines.

Why Are You Asking This Question in the First Place?

I think the more important question is why a person might be asking about keyword tags in the first place.

Are You Being Conned?

As you can see from the brief history given above, the keywords tag has not been relevant to website creation since the end of the previous century.

If you obtained your information about the keyword tag from someone claiming to be a search engine optimization specialist, purporting to help you update your site for a fee, be very careful.

The fact that anyone, in this day and age, can still be talking about using keywords meta tag tells you something about that person. They are either incompetent and outdated (and are thus not going to be able to help your site) or are trying to bamboozle you with strange esoteric terms like “keywords meta tag” which they think will mystify a layman (in which case they cannot be trusted).

I myself have also been contacted by such charlatans before, so I won’t be surprised if the visitors asking me this question are doing so because they have heard from such people. If you are one of those who have received such emails, or have met such web designers, take this warning to heart. Don’t fall for that line.

If you want to make sure your website is search engine ready, see my article How to Create a Search Engine Friendly Website instead. It may not contain mysterious magical incantations that pretend to help you rise to the top of the search engine results, but they are practical, straightforward and realistic tips that have helped many webmasters.
Stay on the Straight and Narrow

Another class of questions that I receive concerning the keywords meta tag comes from those who want to hide the tag from their visitors, so that the latter cannot see what keywords tag they use.

While of course the tag is no longer relevant, so whether you hide it or not does not matter, the question betrays an attitude to website creation that is, in my opinion, not beneficial to the webmaster in the long run. It seems to me (and I may be wrong, of course) that someone asking such a question is trying to find some underhanded way to get to the top of the search engine listings and hiding that information from others who may examine their web page for such tracks.

Here’s how I look at web design: when you create a website, your site is just a means to an end. If you are selling some product, then the site is there so that you can make online sales. Ultimately, you want to spend your time fulfilling that goal — making sales, shipping the product, improving the product or whatever. The same goes for other types of sites, be it a blog, social networking site, tutorial site or some other type. The website is just a way for you to reach your goal. It is not the goal itself.

If you go down the path of using unscrupulous methods to “game” the search engines, you will find that you will have to spend an inordinate amount of time and effort working on the “means” itself, year in year out, instead of the “end” (your goal). This is needed because you have to stay ahead of the search engine programmers who are always tweaking the search engines to weed out such trickery. And those programmers work full time on their engine (and there are many of them). To stay ahead of them, you will practically have to work full time to figure out new tricks to replace obsolete ones and hiding those tricks.

This is of course not something webmasters want to do. They want to create a site, and then focus on what the site lets them accomplish. If it’s an online shop, they prefer that the site run on autopilot and they can just concentrate on shipping their goods (etc). Even if yours is a blog or tutorial site (which obviously can’t run on autopilot), you will still want to spend time writing new posts or articles rather than running around frantically trying to protect your dark secret.

Focus on the content and purpose of your website. Improve its quality. This yields far better results in the long run than going with some shady fad-of-the-week.

Conclusion

So, the short answer to the question of why I do not use keyword tags on my site is that they are no longer relevant today. And they have not been relevant for a very long time.

Google, Bing, and Yahoo Offer New Search Techniques Changes the Search World

Search engines has released three new functions in latest occurrence at San Francisco on May 14 2011. Following are three new functions. This occurrence is legally known as as “Google InsideSearch”.

1. Speech Search
2. Quick Pages
3. Look for by Image

1. Speech Search:

Look for engines has announced voice Look for for desktop computers. At present Look for engines users are typing keywords to get the appropriate information on the google search. Now users can speak words so that Look for engines will understand the word and display appropriate the google search. According to the survey, Look for engines is able to recognize 80% of the words and displaying appropriate outcomes.

Video Tutorial Presenting Speech Search for your laptop or computer

2. Quick Pages:

This is another element which will develop the guest fantastic a lot. Usually 40% of the Search engines readers will press on the 1st hyperlink, so it will take little a chance to fill specific website and readers have to delay. With new function “Instant Pages”, guest will able to see the website immediately. Purpose behind this is strategy is Search engines will fill it already in the after sales and features it immediately when person important it.

Video Tutorial Search engines Search with Quick Websites

3. Look for by Image:

Initially people used to look for pictures by name and getting appropriate pictures. Search applications introduced few other features for person advantage. One function i.e. “Search identical images” that we always use this function to find out the right picture with preferred quality and size. Now Search applications went a advancement and made an wonderful function live. Readers can decrease picture submit on Search bar, so that it will screen all identical pictures with different promises and styles. This function would be beneficial in knowing your personal pictures at other public published by someone else.

Video Tutorial Search by Picture

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