Meta Tags

Meta Tags are used by search engines to allow a more accurate description of your site in their indexes.

VCU Search Meta Tags – http://www.vcu.edu/search/help/faq.html

Using Meta Tags to keep pages from being indexed

In each HTML file you want to exclude, add the following between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags:

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex, follow">

Doing so will allow HtDig to still follow links to other documents, but will prevent this document from being put into the index itself.

If you don't want htdig to follow your links from that page then insert this line of code:

This will prevent the linked pages from being indexed as well as that page.

Improve Your Relevance Rating

The relevance rating of a page is determined by the frequency with which the keywords occur. Additionally, the keywords are weighted according to their location in the document. Keywords located in the <head> of a document, i.e. the Title or in a <meta> tag are more heavily weighted that keywords located in the body of the document. Also, Keywords receive a higher rating the closer they are to the beginning of the document.

There are two primary ways of improving your relevance rating. The first is to appropriately identify your Web page with a proper <title>. The second is to use a <meta> tag to describe your Web page's keywords.

The meta tag goes in the <head> of your HTML document. FrontPage users should look at the online document for adding keywords using FrontPage.

Using Meta Tags to Redirect Pages

The content value is the number of seconds that it takes before the page is redirected.

This goes in the <head> of the web page.

Additional Meta Tag Links

AnyBroweser.com

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