Re: Meta Tags

Bear with me here, but could someone explain meta tags?  What are they
specifically and what would I write on a webpage to create one?


Susan Kemp
OCFS Internet Services
am4030(at)dfa.state.ny.us
(w)518-473-1085

----- Original Message -----
From: "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
To: "Bryan Bateman" <batemanb(at)home.com>; <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: Meta Tags


> Someone please jump in here and correct me if I'm wrong, but . . .
>
> I do not believe that _any_ dynamically generated pages are indexed by the
> spiders currently roaming the web. I'm pretty sure ONLY static pages are
> indexed.
>
> If that is indeed the case, while *I* don't see any problem with including
> META info in the template, I don't think it will do you (or your customer)
> a bit of good in terms of getting you into a "respectable" place on search
> service returns.
>
> HTH,
> Fuzzy,
>
> At 05:04 PM 8/29/00 -0400, Bryan Bateman wrote:
> >I'm gonna regret this but here goes.
> >
> >I am creating a site that will build the pages dynamically.  Each product
> >will have it's content pulled from a database.  I could store the meta
> >content in one of the database fields but that page will be unavailable
> >unless dynamically generated.
> >
> >Should I put a generic meta tag on the template?  Suggestions, ideas,
> >personal experiences welcome.
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
> >To: "Courtney Carter Trautweiler" <jgf001(at)mail.connect.more.net>;
> ><hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
> >Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 1:39 PM
> >Subject: Re: Meta Tags
> >
> >
> >> Courtney,
> >>
> >> It depends.
> >>
> >> I would recommend putting them on each page _provided_ they are changed
to
> >> reflect the unique content in/on that page.
> >>
> >> As a viewer myself, few things tick me off worse than getting a 'first
on
> >> the list' return from a search service on a page that actually has noth
ing
> >> to do with the content on *that  page*.
> >>
> >> It really grinds my grits into powder when that happens.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >> Fuzzy :-)
> >>
> >> At 11:26 AM 8/28/00 -0500, Courtney Carter Trautweiler wrote:
> >> >Hello all,
> >> >
> >> >Just a quick question, is it generally recommended to put Meta Tags on
> >each
> >> >page of a website or can you put them all on the first page and then
have
> >> >the robots follow and index the rest?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >Courtney Carter
> >> __________________________________________________________________
> >> Captain F.M. O'Lary
> >> webmaster(at)canopy.net
> >> A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> __________________________________________________________________
> Captain F.M. O'Lary
> webmaster(at)canopy.net
> A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?
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>

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