Re: Search Engines & Meta Tags

by Collette McNeill <collette(at)mlwebworks.com>

Date:	Sat, 01 Jun 2002 16:33:30 -0700
To:	"Lonna Poland" <lonna(at)granbury.com>, hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	hilma
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At 01:49 PM 6/1/02 -0500, you wrote:
>In a Google search under the keywords "bible
>college", the two top sites, http://www.jbc.edu/ and
>http://www.bible.edu/ didn't even have meta tags with keywords.  Their
>meta tags look like this

(please forgive heavy snipping)

><title>Johnson Bible College</title>
>
><title>Washington Bible College - Capital Bible Seminary - Lanham 
>Maryland</title>
>
>With no content at all on these pages, how did they get top listing in
>Google?

Well, both of those sites use the term "bible college" in their <title> 
tags. Google lists pages by their titles (quoting titles verbatim) so it 
seems logical that titles are considered when indexing and ranking sites.

Either that, or it's magic.
Collette

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