Meta Tags DO matter

Hi
I have run some tests and despite what most people say, the Meta tags do make a big difference in SEO,.... with iWeb anyway.
When I enter meta tags for my site www.teachabroadthailand.com i get listed for my target keywords and description. When I don't enter the Meta tags, my site description come up with all this garble in the summary.
Trouble is, I have to use another FTP client to go in and enter the Meta tags each time I edit the site. This is infuriating and somewhat defeats the purpose of using iWeb.
I'm baffled as to why iWeb cannot allow such a simple, but still very important, feature.
Also since I upgraded to iLife 09 my iWeb has become buggy. The site doesn't display properly on IE8.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

A lot of us use iWeb SEO Tool to add tags.
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/Tags.html
There are a lot of features that could and should be added to iWeb. All this stuff has been suggested over and over but nobody listens.
iWeb needs to have both an optimizer and a way to enter meta data.
The developers seem to have burned their brains out on their dysfunctional FTP and haven't yet got around to fixing the actual bugs.

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buddhika23 wrote:
> I'm using coldfusion developer version. So when i
execute a coldfusion
> template, there is a meta tag in the source code.
Therefore I can't use
> coldfusion generated XML data as a Flex data source. If
any one know avoid this
> problem please help me. I'm trying to lear flex.
> Thank you,
> Buddhika
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developer edition
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Macromedia
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CF using the developer edition that you can download from
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Matt Woodward
[email protected]
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I'm glad it worked. Nevertheless you might think of uploading an html file as well. The index.html sometimes gets overwritten by iweb, thus the meta-tag would disappear and you would have to do it again. The html file instead stays where it is.
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How do I add Meta tags to my website

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I think I may have a good workaround here, not sure how it will work with .mac as I dont use it, I am in control of my default page within Apache.
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