Keywords, meta & description

Hi, can someone please tell me the difference between
keywords, meta & description? I'm new to Dreamweaver and am
just going through the pages of my 1st site to add these. I know
that they're all for a similar purpose, and I'm guessing that the
description is a short paragraph summarising the page, whilst
keywords are a few well chosen individual words. I'm not sure about
meta though.
Also, I've already added both descriptions & keywords to
all pages, but when I go back in the pop up box is blank again, as
if I've not entered anything. Do you know why this is?
Many thanks,

> Hi, can someone please tell me the difference between
keywords, meta &
> description?
Here's the difference: The former meta is ignored by all
search engines but
Yahoo, and can generally be left out of your pages. The
latter is used by
the search engines to describe a link to your site when your
site appears in
a hit list.
> guessing that the description is a short paragraph
summarising the page
Yes, that's correct, but the summary would be in the context
of the site's
mission. It's to describe a listing of that page's URL in the
list of
search engine hits.
> I'm not sure about meta though.
Oh - I see. You need to put DW down and go study HTML here -
http://www.w3schools.com.
Without a good basis in HTML, DW will be a very
mysterious adventure for you. What you are missing here is
the function of
the <meta> tag.
> Also, I've already added both descriptions &
keywords to all pages, but
> when I
> go back in the pop up box is blank again, as if I've not
entered anything.
> Do
> you know why this is?
We'd need to see your code to know what you have done.
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> Hi, can someone please tell me the difference between
keywords, meta &
> description? I'm new to Dreamweaver and am just going
through the pages
> of my
> 1st site to add these. I know that they're all for a
similar purpose, and
> I'm
> guessing that the description is a short paragraph
summarising the page,
> whilst
> keywords are a few well chosen individual words. I'm not
sure about meta
> though.
> Also, I've already added both descriptions &
keywords to all pages, but
> when I
> go back in the pop up box is blank again, as if I've not
entered anything.
> Do
> you know why this is?
> Many thanks,
>

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I know the SEO results may not be great, but I'd still like to use it, just to make it as good as possible for search engines.
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I use Dreamweaver 8 and read there is a "text box" similar to
the one for description on the toolbar for adding keywords.
This was in the help section of Dreamweaver 8 as follows:
Setting Keywords properties
Many search-engine robots (programs that automatically browse
the web gathering information for search engines to index) read the
contents of the Keywords meta tag and use the information to index
your pages in their databases. Because some search engines limit
the number of keywords or characters they index, or ignore all
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the possible
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Try INSERT | HTML > Head Tags > Meta Keywords.
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"dbistroff" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ebvt5b$n77$[email protected]..
>I use Dreamweaver 8 and read there is a "text box"
similar to the one for
> description on the toolbar for adding keywords.
>
> This was in the help section of Dreamweaver 8 as
follows:
>
> Setting Keywords properties
>
> Many search-engine robots (programs that automatically
browse the web
> gathering information for search engines to index) read
the contents of
> the
> Keywords meta tag and use the information to index your
pages in their
> databases. Because some search engines limit the number
of keywords or
> characters they index, or ignore all keywords if you go
beyond the limit,
> it?s
> a good idea to use just a few well-chosen keywords.
>
> Enter your keywords, separated by commas, in the text
box labeled
> Keywords.
>
> Where on the tool bar is this located or how do you get
it on the toolbar?
> I
> have searched but must be missing something.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Don
>
http://glasscottage.net[b
>

Meta description

In order to avoid duplicate Meta descriptions, on multiple
pages created from a template (Meta description inserted on
template code) what can I do. DW doesn't let me edit individual
page Meta description as they are created from a template. Any
advise please...

> but cannot find the mistake.
I can. Changes to editable content in a template page DO NOT
PROPAGATE TO
EXISTING CHILD PAGES. You are forgetting how templates
work....
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"A.Translator" <[email protected]> wrote
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>I messed up.
> I changed my template to say this just before the
</head>
> _________
>
> 
> <meta name="Description" content="De Taalvlinder is
een site voor
> vertalers Engels - Nederlands (en in mindere mate voor
hen die het vice
> versa doen) met verwijzingen naar url's die in menig
vertalerspraktijk
> handig en / of nuttig zijn gebleken, plus woordenlijsten
met medische en
> technische termen." />
> <meta name="Keywords" content="Taalvlinder, Engels,
Nederlands,
> woordenlijsten, lexicon, merknamen, politietermen" />
> 
> </head>
> __________________________________
>
> and pressed Update. All files were reported as updated,
but when I go to
> one of the supposedly updated pages, I see this:
>
> _________________
>
> 
> </head>
>
> __________________
>
> I must have cut something off, but cannot find the
mistake.
> I don't know whether it is relevant, but DOCTYPE is:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
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> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>
> Can someone please enlighten me?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Adriana.
> [ put out the rubbish if you need to reach me by e-mail
> www.spinsister.nl
>
>

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Cheers
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Thanks in advance and regards,
Frank.

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