Google ignores META tags completely. A good "<title>" tag consisting of 5-10 words is all you need for that. NEVER begin your "TITLE" with "Welcome to~" or "This is my~" etc... as these are un-indexable common terms.
Semantic (naming it for what it is) markeup, relevant links with GOOD text (NEVER "Click here" for link, always call your link whatever it is. If for babysitting, link should be called "babysitters", etc, not "click here").
Use alt="" text for images, and alt="" + title="" for other non-image elements (h1-6 inclusive, etc).
If you use META tags, do NOT repeat words more than 5 times, as this is considered "spamming" and gets you 'sent to the end of the line' rather quickly.
Avoid (well, don't do it!) use 'same color text on same-color background' to make targeted keywords invisible, but 'searchable'. This is called 'cramming' and it is 'gray-hat', -also a deletarious effect on your Google ranking.
There are hundreds of SEO tips out there to boost your ranking. Mostly though, good content, good semantic use of code, try to keep your CSS and HTML 'seperated' (use as little inline-style as possible: always try to use 'externally linked' CSS files).
I could go on for an hour... :rolleyes:
LeeU
02-28-2008, 09:25 AM
Google ignores META tags completely.
Actually, this is not entirely correct. Google does use the "description" tag extensively. It's generally used for the description of your Web site in the search listing.
Avoid (well, don't do it!) use 'same color text on same-color background' to make targeted keywords invisible, but 'searchable'. This is called 'cramming' and it is 'gray-hat', -also a deletarious effect on your Google ranking.
Yes, in fact, Google WILL remove you for it, if they catch you. They did it last year to the Web site of Mercedes Benz in Germany. It took MB several months to have it re-instated.
marketraise
02-28-2008, 09:32 AM
Hi, I've got a website,
www.rippleeffectoflife.co.uk
I coded it all myself. Designed it all myself. I want it on Google.
If you type in rippleeffectoflife.co.uk, Google lists a page that doesn't exist, and lists the first bit of content as the description.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="Please visit my site for pure, clear, practical advice to inspire you in your everyday life.">
<meta name="keywords" content="Ripple, Effect, of, Life, Happiness, Confidence, Compassion, Bliss, Inspiration, Health, Buddhism, Kindness, Love, Buddha, Tony Robbins">
<meta name="AUTHOR" content="MY NAME">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="index, follow">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="2 days">
I have this at the top of every page. Why wont Google pick it up?? :confused:
Simply because Google also takes into consideration the words [or Anchor text] that appear in your back links.More over what I feel is that you haven't enabled your robot text files for your webpage.Hence it isn't being cached by Google.
The Old Sarge
03-06-2008, 11:22 AM
I swear ... when you first posted your link, I looked at your code and your title tag was after the metas. :D
dtm32236
03-06-2008, 12:08 PM
have you tried to add your url to google (http://www.google.com/addurl/)?
and check out the google webmaster guidelines (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769) (do everything you can to follow these suggestions)
those are worthless - google, and most other search engines, completely ignore these tags (index, follow is the default action used, so it's unnecessary to include on your page - the only reason for the robots meta tag is if you want something different - like index, nofollow)
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