Re: search engines

Can you or any others in the list point me to the information about
placement order of tags in the head section.  I am in the process of
creating templates that pull this and other info from a data source and want
to get the design right the first time.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Weatherly Morgan" <weatherly(at)weathervanegraphics.com>
To: "hwg-basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: search engines


> Hi Mike,
>     I'm no expert, but I've read that your title tag should be ahead of
any
> meta tags in your heading. You probably want to move that up and add some
> more descriptive text to the body of your home page. Some say a word count
> of 400 to 800 is ideal. I think that's asking for a lot in some cases, but
> it seems like the more text on your home page the better.
>     Your keywords seem a bit vague to me, but I don't have any better
> suggestions. http://www.marketposition.com/ has a keyword generator with a
> free trial. Maybe it will help.
>     The only other thing I can think of, and if it's the case it could be
> your main problem, is the possibility that bizland clients could be
getting
> penalized by the search engines/directories. Does anyone else know if this
> is the case? I would strongly recommend you get a domain name.
>
> =Weatherly=
>
> > I am having a hard time getting listed in search engines. I have meta
tags
> > but still after several several months no listings.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> > Mike
> > www.bathbombfizzies.bizland.com
>
>

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