Keywords
Jim Slaughter
Registered User
112 posts
My friends all tell me I need 'keywords' in my site to get it to the top of the search engines. How do I do that? Where do they go in VSD?
BillR
Ambassador
3,144 posts
Sailr,
One way is to manually write the meta tags and insert them in the head section using the HTML tool.
One way is to manually write the meta tags and insert them in the head section using the HTML tool.
Jim Slaughter
Registered User
112 posts
Thanks Bill. I am really dense in this stuff. What is the head section? Do you mean on the front page?
Bruzer
Registered User
3,940 posts
rhubarb67
Registered User
508 posts
sailr wrote:
Thanks Bill. I am really dense in this stuff. What is the head section? Do you mean on the front page?
Thanks Bill. I am really dense in this stuff. What is the head section? Do you mean on the front page?
There are several key tags at the top of your web page
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
Inside the <head></head> tags is where you'll insert the meta tags just above the <title></title> tags. They should look something like this:
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
The "keywords" are words that would describe your web site, for instance, if your web site was your family ancestry, then some keywords would be "family", ancestry", "history", etc. without the quotes, like this
<meta name="keywords" content="family", ancestry", "history" />
the description would contain a short sentence describing you site.
Greg
BillR
Ambassador
3,144 posts
Sailr,
I think Bruce and Greg have done a great job of explaining the what and how of meta tags with VSD.
To elaborate on the rest of the html structure, you start with a doctype, and VSD does this for you. The end result will look something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
All your content goes here using an assortment of tags.
</body>
</html>
Just to explain that a tag is <html>, <h1>, etc. VSD takes care of producing all your tags for you, but if you visit a site and see something interesting, you can view the source and see lots of tags being used to tell the browser what you want done.
Hope this helps.
I think Bruce and Greg have done a great job of explaining the what and how of meta tags with VSD.
To elaborate on the rest of the html structure, you start with a doctype, and VSD does this for you. The end result will look something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
All your content goes here using an assortment of tags.
</body>
</html>
Just to explain that a tag is <html>, <h1>, etc. VSD takes care of producing all your tags for you, but if you visit a site and see something interesting, you can view the source and see lots of tags being used to tell the browser what you want done.
Hope this helps.
Jim Slaughter
Registered User
112 posts
Great! Thanks everyone!
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