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Text/Note Pad Page Building Tutorial

We are now going to discuss and demonstrate the many uses of Meta Tags that enable visitors browsers and search engines to read hidden information not viewed on viewers browser screen.

  
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Meta tags can be very beneficial to you in many ways. You can give information like page description, content, keywords, and other areas we will discuss below.

Not all Meta tags we will discuss are necessary to everyone, but we recommend your using most of these listed.

This lesson is not absolutely necessary if you do not care about installation of meta tags. You may elect to skip this lesson and move to next lesson by going to bottom of this page.

Meta tags are placed under the <title> tag:

We will start by installing the Author tag (who created HTML).

Install the Author tag: --> <meta name="author" content="your name or business" (email addy)">

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We will now install the Content Generator tag.

Install the Generator tag: --> <meta name="generator" content="Designer: your name or business (http://www.yoururl.com/">

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We will now add the Description Content tag. This is a short description as to what your web site is about.

Install the Description tag: --> <meta name="description" content="Designer Wiz Web Productions is a premier web design productions company on the www to obtain true interaction to enhance your Web Site presence.">

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We will now add our Keywords that are extremely important for search engine results. If you would like, we offer a free meta tag generator to produce proper code.

Install Keyword tag: --> <meta name="keywords" content="your keywords here, separated by comma's on each keyword">

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We will now inform search engines the origin of your country.

Install Origin tag: --> <meta name="country" content="usa">

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We will now inform of organization email address.

Install E-mail tag: --> <meta name="organization-Email" content="webmaster@DesignerWiz.com"> 
(You may want to encrypt email address to prevent bots capturing email address to spam mail you)

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We will now install a Copyright notice tag.

Install Copyright tag: --> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright 2000 - Designer Wiz Web Productions @ www.Designerwiz.com">

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We will now inform of coverage area you provide services to.

Install Coverage tag: --> <meta name="coverage" content="worldwide">

If you want to only cover a particular country, just replace world wide with country.

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We will now post your site creation date.

Install Creation Date tag: --> <meta name="creation date" content="January, 1, 2000">

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We will now inform of language type used on your web page.

Install Language type tag: --> <meta name="language" content="English">

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Would you like the search engine's to automatically come back and index your pages after a certain set time factor? You can add this tag below.

Install Revisit tag: --> <meta name="revisit_after" content="3days"> (set days to your preference)

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Do you have a Web page that has many different sections within itself? Do you want the search engines to follow the links provided on your Web page?

Install
Robot Follow tag: --> <meta name="robots" content="follow">

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Your Pad Editor should look something like this now, depending on meta tags you selected to use.

We will move onto installation of background color/images, text & font color, links, visited links, and active link commands on our next tutorial page.