META tages in html

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 3:00 pm

umm could someone give me an example of how to do a meta tag i know what they are for and stuff i just dont know how to set one up

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:23 pm

please someone help me this would be a big help

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:25 pm

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:26 pm

actually, you don't even need the </meta>

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:27 pm

nailz1000 wrote:<meta = XXXXXXX> </meta>

why didn't you just do a google search?

that dosent work meta is a singeltin tag so there for its <meta xxxxx> and i did search in google and didnt find anything that really helped

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:27 pm

What does a meta tag look like?
You should insert the meta tag element at the top of your document, just after the <TITLE> element. It follows the usual form of tags, ie
<META name="something" content="something else">
but note that you don't have to have a </META> at the end of the tag, the way that you do with something like <BOLD> bold </BOLD>. However, make sure that each tag does not include any line breaks, since some search engines get a little bit tetchy about this.

What can I include in a meta tag?
There are basically four major meta tags that you can use:

<META name="resource-type" content="document">
The only resource type that is currently in use is "document" This is the only tag that you need to put in for indexing purposes, but use of the others is a good idea.
<META name="description" content="a description of your page">
Depending on the search engine, this will be displayed along with the title of your page in an index. "content" could be a word, sentence or even paragraph to describe your page. Keep this reasonably short, concise and to the point. However, don't be so mean with your description that its not an appropriate reflection of the contents!
<META name="keywords" content="a, list, of, keywords">
Choose whatever keywords you think are appropriate, seperated by commas. Remember to include synoyms, americanisms and so on. So, if you had a page on cars, you might want to include keywords such as car, cars, vehicles, automobiles and so on.
<META name="distribution" content="one of several">
Content should contain either global, local or iu (for Internal Use). To be perfectly honest, I can't quite get my head around this one; its supposed to list available resources designed to allow the use to find things easily, but I still don't quite get it. My advice is to stick to "global".

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:29 pm

thanx for your help

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:05 am

hm... Search google.. meta tag use... this is what we come up with

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... ta+Tag+use

learn how to use your fucking brain to run a search engine, moron. Alas, meta tags have either changed since i used them in geocities, or I had forgotten how to use them.

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:46 am

thanx for that link. i did search in google but i didnt really find anything usful besides its easier to ask here. and this is what this place is for anyway i dont see why u got so upset

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:54 am

nailz1000 wrote:hm... Search google.. meta tag use... this is what we come up with

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... ta+Tag+use

learn how to use your fucking brain to run a search engine, moron. Alas, meta tags have either changed since i used them in geocities, or I had forgotten how to use them.

don't be such a dick

go make us another "game" thread