Meta Tags in Dreamweaver

In websites, meta tags are meant to be used so that it helps
the search engines robots to position your website in the relevant
ranking of the website. But how do you use it. Are you meant to use
one word at a time, eg. damian, quinn then repeat it after a while
or do you just use it normally eg, damian quinn, website
designer...etc?
If you want more explantory, then please by all means ask for
it. I'm not sure what I'm on about!!!

Be my guest. You'll not find keywords in meta tags on
mine....
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"Richard Mason" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Damian Quinn wrote
>
>>In websites, meta tags are meant to be used so that
it helps the search
>>engines
>>robots to position your website in the relevant
ranking of the website.
>>But
>>how do you use it. Are you meant to use one word at a
time, eg. damian,
>>quinn
>>then repeat it after a while or do you just use it
normally eg, damian
>>quinn,
>>website designer...etc?
>
> Sometimes it can be quite interesting to do view page
source on the web
> sites of people who tell you that meta tags serve no
purpose.
>
> --
> Richard Mason
>
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I have a dynamic site that is primarily table driven. I would
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No, that's not the Description <meta> tag. It's the character encoding <meta> tag.
To insert the Description <meta> tag in Dreamweaver, go to the Insert panel, and select the Common category from the menu. Click the down arrow alongside Head, and select Description.
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Meta tag error in site created by dreamweaver

I recently checked my site www.bestical.com at The W3C Markup Validation Service and there are error in it
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Short answer: You're using an HTML5 doc type which has a different set of specs for valid meta tags and other HTML syntax.
Introduction to HTML
Where you have this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fa">
Language must be expressed in the <html> tag like this:
<!doctype html>
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<head>
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Is there an easy way to add meta tags to a Flash file that is
used in Dreamweaver? I would like to have the information within
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No. SEs don't read Flash.
Walt
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> Is there an easy way to add meta tags to a Flash file
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> picked up
> by the SE spiders. Thanks for any suggestions. -ab
>

Cannot create title tag, meta tags for iWeb site, per Google requirements.

I created simple website in iWeb to meet art show deadline
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Quotation Marks in Description Meta Tag

I want to put quotation marks around a book title in a description meta tag. When I add them using the Description field in Properties, Dreamweaver substitutes " for the quotation mark. I know it is doing this because the content= is in quotes. Will the quotation marks show up okay using these html entities in all search engine results that display what is in my description meta tag?
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Using Web Widgets in iWeb to Create meta tags???

I am using iWeb '08 version 2.0.3
There is a feature in iWeb 08 to add HTML snippets (when you click on the button at the bottom "Web Widgets".
I have added some Meta tags on each of my pages, for example (my keywords & descriptions have different content, this is an example):
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="this is my description">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="these are my keywords">
<title>this is my title</title>
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="GOOGLEBOT" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">
I published to a folder, then pushed the code out to my site. When I view the source code, I do not see any of these tags on any of my pages (I put this on all of my pages).
My question is why is this not showing up? I can certainly add this content via dreamweaver, but that would be a pain as every time I update my site, I would have to publish to a folder and then, in dreamweaver, put the code out there again on each page. What a pain in the a*@!
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Because whatever you add to HTML Snippet is actually added to another page called widget#_markup.html .
iWeb then link this widget#_markup page to the main page with a iframe, this is the same reason why google analytics javascript and statcounter javascript don't track correctly when add in HTML Snippet.
You better off using some scriptable applications or AppleScript to do post editing.

Keyword Meta Tag Text Box

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.
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Don
The Glass Cottage

That information is flawed. The major search engines (with
the possible
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"dbistroff" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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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 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 Tag contents not showing up in google and facebook

I publish an online newspaper about animal news in nyc. I recently rebuilt my site in dreamweaver and have just added meta tags to my homepage and that of the most recent article. When I do a google search the homepage description comes up with a leadin from an old article. Also when I tried posting the newest article in facebook the meta tag content description did not appear. Can someone tell me how I should correctly write the meta tag in the html so that it appears in google searches and when I post articles on facebook? Below are links to my homepage and the article discussed above, as well as how I wrote the meta tags in the html. Thank you in advance for all your help!
Best,
Michael
http://newyorkcompanion.com/
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>New York Companion</title>
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<meta name="Keywords" content="Animal News" />
http://newyorkcompanion.com/sbpgs/2012/April/High%20Rise%20Syndrome.html
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>New York Companion</title>
<meta name="Keywords" content="Animal News" />
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<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.newyorkcompanion.com/sbpgs/2012/April/High%20Rise%20Syndrome.html/<img src="../../../images/articles/2012/April/High Rise Syn_TS.jpg" />

Michael,
Breget is referring to the cache maintained by Google. You can't clear or update their cache - unfortunately, all you can do is wait for your site to get crawled (which can take a couple days), and once they have gathered your meta information, they will then update the description in their SERP (which can also take a couple days).
Interestingly, I looked for your article by searching "new york companion high rise syndrome" and the first result was THIS page!!! This points to another factor which is the more popular your site, the more often it is updated. I would recommend you take a look at Google's Webmaster Tools and do a bit of research into SEO - this should help clarify things more...
Good luck!
Jason
P.S. - It looks like your meta information was entered correctly.

Base meta tag not working

We have a trial version of Dreamweaver CS3. Up to this point,
we've been using MS FrontPage.
We have a standard meta tag in our header that looks like
this:
<BASE HREF="
http://myURL/">
This code allows the page to complete relational links so
that, for instance, our styles from our stylesheet are brought into
the page while we're editing it. However, while this code works
fine in FrontPage, it isn't working in Dreamweaver. We have to use
absolute paths to link to all images, media, linked pages, etc.,
for Dreamweaver to render them.
I should add that when we edit pages, they are on a server
that isn't a web server (no IIS). But this lack doesn't bother
FrontPage.
Anyone know what's going on here? I suspect it's an easy fix,
but if it isn't, then we probably won't be buying
Dreamweaver.

I have never used or heard of the base meta tag and I have
never had any problems using relational links in Dreamweaver. Not
sure what could be causing your problems. Can you post a sample of
code or a link?
J

How to tell web host no meta tags or search words please?

I am getting ready to upload files to my new site but want to make sure there will be no search words for this site other than the URL. I use DW4. Thanks.

Meta tags are placed in the HTML. Your webhost has nothing to do with the content that you place on their servers, other than making it available to the world.
Look in files you created with Dreamweaver and see if you added any meta information, it would look something like this:
<meta name="typeOfMetaTagHere" content="The Actual meta info here">
If you don't see anything that starts with <meta... then you don't have any meta information on the page.

Title, meta tags for seo, where to put in code..?

Hi guys
Im trying to optimise my first ever site and Im doing it in dreamweaver. Ive figured out the title and meta tags are html and was just wondering whereabouts in my html code should I put them...?
Are they before the body tag..? Are they before my first div tag in the code..?
Are they in a specific div tag, e.g header div=title tag, meta tag = main content div....?
Any help would be great
Cheers :-)

I wasnt recommending he use meta-keywords, I was just answering his question. However, my employer has a huge static site with thousands of products and he is always listed in the top 5, if not number one in google searches. His site is all text with one image on each product page with an alt tag. He doesnt have ANY back links whatsoever, but uses page text content, meta-keywords, and meta-descriptions extensively. He doesnt even use heading tags. His site layout is with tables, and he uses deprecated html such as <font> and <center> tags on every page. Of course we have discussed the problems his site is going to encounter eventually with regards to his layout and use of the deprecated tags.
I'm not saying search engines use meta-keywords, but I have to say what ever he's done has worked very well.
My point is, I read and read about what search engines use and dont use to rank and index pages, yet I see contradictions everyday to both sides.

Meta tags and keywords.. what am I doing wrong?!

Hi there,
I apologise if this is the wrong place to post
I've been designing this website ( http://serenemind.com.au/ ) In Dreamweaver. I don't know if I've done the keywords / meta tag stuff right, it doesn't come up anywhere in google unless I type the exact URL
If someone could throw me a bone here I would greatly appriciate it
Thank you
Nick

nicknackhack wrote:
Hi there,
I apologise if this is the wrong place to post
I've been designing this website ( http://serenemind.com.au/ ) In Dreamweaver. I don't know if I've done the keywords / meta tag stuff right, it doesn't come up anywhere in google unless I type the exact URL
If someone could throw me a bone here I would greatly appriciate it
Thank you
Nick
How long has it been since you submitted the site to Google. It wont show up overnight. Might take a few days or a few weeks.
Also I see only one h3 tag on the page? Why no h1 or h2 tags. Spider sees these tags as more important.
Also depends what search term you are using - it shows up near the top in Google with these search phrases:
Healthy Mind Therapies Beacon Hill
Thought field therapy Beacon Hill
So not too bad.
Also your images have no alt="" tag. Google spider reads those so make the most of them. Try inserting your header.png in an <h1></h1> tag and then use some descriptive text on the alt tag(see below)
<h1><a href="http://www.serenemind.com.au"><img src="images/AHG_Web_header.png" width="700" height="200" border="0" alt="Insert some descriptive text about the site here"></a></h1>
You also need to get listed in as many good free web directories as possible. The more incoming links to your site the better Google will view it and might place it higher up the rankings.

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