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Title (Strongly Recommended)
Your documents title will appear in
user's hotlists, the banner of most browsers, and robot-generated lists. It
should be a concise, one-line summary of what the page is about. Bear in
mind that users may not reach your document through your homepage, but
directly using a search engine or link at another site, so the title should
ideally be self-sufficient. If this is a company website, try to include the
name of your company here also. Instead of Tools and Supplies, make it Joes
Hardware - Tools and Supplies.
Keywords (Strongly Recommended)
Comma-separated list of key words
for indexing your document.
Some robots look at keywords in context, so it is best to preserve word
order and case, e.g. pizza, Vancouver, British Columbia rather than british
vancouver columbia pizza. Try to use plurals for your keywords, search
engines will process both singular and plural form. DO NOT REPEAT
KEYWORDS!
Description (Strongly Recommended)
The description is presented to the
user along with the document's title as the result of a search.
Many robots use the first few lines of text as a description if the
Description tag is not present. For documents using frames, it is possible
that there is no such text present. Try to include your company name or
website name here also. Use keywords in your description. Try to avoid
superlatives (such as "best", "biggest",
"coolest").
This tag names the author or creator of
the page. This is useful if a searcher would like to find more pages created
by you.
Redirect
This tag will let you redirect your
visitors to another URL after a specified amount of time. This is useful if
your site changes URLs.
Robots (Recommended)
See the
workshop report at W3 for the full text.
<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="ALL | NONE | NOINDEX | NOFOLLOW">
default = empty = "ALL"
"NONE" = "NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"
The filler is a comma separated list of
terms:
ALL, NONE, INDEX, NOINDEX, FOLLOW, NOFOLLOW.
Discussion: This tag is meant to
provide users who cannot control the robots.txt file at their sites. It
provides a last chance to keep their content out of search services. It was
decided not to add syntax to allow robot specific permissions within the
meta-tag.
INDEX means that robots are welcome
to include this page in search services.
FOLLOW means that robots are welcome
to follow links from this page to find other pages.
So a value of "NOINDEX"
allows the subsidiary links to be explored, even though the page is not
indexed. A value of "NOFOLLOW" allows the page to be indexed, but
no links from the page are explored (this may be useful if the page is a
free entry point into pay-per-view content, for example. A value of
"NONE" tells the robot to ignore the page.
DHTML page transitions.
These are the effects a user will see upon entering/exiting your site. These
can annoy users. Use these sparingly!