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To the end, META tags help search engines index your site very quickly. Although support for META tags by all search engines is yet to be accomplished, it's still a good idea and it makes it easier for people searching for sites like yours to find it faster and is much more attractive.
META tags belong in the HEAD tags like this:
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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Title of Website</TITLE> <META NAME="" CONTENT=""> </HEAD> <BODY> </BODY> </HTML> |
META tags do not require a closing counterpart and have a format exactly like this. NAME is what the engine will look at to figure out what it's looking for, then the content will follow. To my knowledge, NAME can be capitalised any way you like.
The first one to go over, NAME can be KEYWORDS and the content is the words someone searches for that your site is related to, and should listed in relevance to your site, and I make it a habit to include the closest spelling errors.
We also have DESCRIPTION which will appear as the description of your site under your page's title on most search engines.
Finally, we have AUTHOR which should contain your name and email address in a simple format, I prefer to use "Name or Alias (you@mail.com)".
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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>HTMLSite</TITLE> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="HTMLSite,HTML,Site,Webpage,Design,Web,Page,Stie,META,Tags,HMTL"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="HTMLSite is a comprehensive site to teach you all the basics of webpage design with a simple text editor such as Notepad."> <META NAME="author" CONTENT="Russ Tops (russg@mindless.com)"> </HEAD> <BODY> </BODY> </HTML> |
Apart from that, you can also search the net for other tutorials, since this is fairly basic, but a great site. Additional things you can consider on your website, should you decide to learn them or just use them are JavaScript, Java, CSS, CGI/Perl, and other assorted HTML Goodies. You can also catch my search engine page which will let you search several engines from my site. Note on Legibility: Never say "Click Here" on a link or "here".
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