METAtags Management
META TAGS
What is the use ? META Tags are special tags used in HTML language. They let search engines like Altavista, Yahoo or Hotbot to index your site faster and in a more efficient way. Half of the internet users use search engines so you have to pay attention to your meta-tags. To know META tags must not be cut: don't use <BR> (break space) in your meta tags!.
<TITLE> Tags (special case)
Title All the pages of a website require a title, this is more efficient for search engine submissions. With NPDS, the site'title is the same for all the pages. You can change this parameter in Preferences and in the pages.php (/themes directory); . Don't use more than 100 letters! Note : Using one of your keywords in the title is a good thing, your site will be indexed in a better way.
Common META
Meta "Author" This tag is not commonly used by search engines. Only Nomade uses this. Meta "Owner" This tag says who owns the website, equals the name of author. Meta "Reply-to" This tag indicates the email of the author. It allows visitors who saved your page on the computer to contact you. Meta "Language" This tags indicated the language of your website. It is useful as most english search engines have included Languge as search criteria. Meta "Description" This tag is where you should put the desciption of your website. Just one sentence!. And do not put more than 200 letters!. Meta "Keywords" This tag deals with keywords refering to the page / website. Use commas to separate them. You can put 100 words (or 1000 letters). Meta "Rating" This si about the targeted audience. From General to Mature or Restricted or 14 years. Meta "Distribution" It deals with the website: is it available for everyone (Global) or is it restricted (Local). Meta "Copyright" This tag is not used by search engines but it provides the copyright information (the use of the document). Meta "Robots" This is where ou tell robots (sent by search engines) wether they can index all your pages or not, when do they have to come back and check updates... . Parameters are : - All : All pages from your site will be indexed and analysed. - None : No pages will be indexed. - Index : Only the index page will be indexed. - NoIndex : The robots will index all pages but the index. - Follow : Let the robots to browse your site using the links in your pages. - NoFollow : Browsing your site using the links is not allowed. Meta "Revisit-After" When the robot should come back to your site. Can't be before 14 days.
Other META
Meta "Content-Type" This is used by your browser and gives information about the language fonts. For english pages, it is the occidental caracters set (text/html; charset=iso-8859-1). Meta "Content-Script-Type" This is used by your browser and gives information about the scriptsused in the page ( text/javascript). Meta "Content-Style-Type" This is used by your browser and gives information about the styles used in the page ( text/css). Meta "Identifier-url" This tag gives the information about the URL of your site. It echoes the URL set in NPDS preferences. Meta "Generator" No real use for search engines. It's about the tool you used to build your site (golive, dreamweaver, NPDS) Meta "Pragma" Disable the caching of the pages (mostly for Netscape).No-cache means the page won't be cached (useful for PHP pages as there is a constant update)