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12-11-2007 Search Engines, Meta Tags and a Generator

I have found that more and more, search engines are using meta data to cull sites or raise their rankings. I am going back through my sites and attempting to do cleanup work on all my meta data. Now, WordPress is pretty good about automatically updating meta tags and such, however there are some plugins that you can use which actually even clean that process up.

Two of them are:

Add Meta Tags (http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/add-meta-tags-wordpress-plugin/)

All in One SEO Pack (http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/)

However, for you guys who are out there doing the die-hard html site and want to make sure your site is getting the proper attention, here is a generator that might help. I actually got it from SEO Watch and they allow anyone to add it to their site for free. I have it here as a resource for our guys!



Meta Tag Generator Tool © SEO Chat™

Keywords
List of relevant keywords

Description
Short description of page

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A more advanced editor that takes a little more time, but is totally worth it, is right here.


Advanced Meta-Tags Generator Tool © SEO Chat™



Title
The Title Tag must contain no more than 70 characters (generally, 100 characters may be indexed).

Author
The Author Tag is for the person who wrote the material for the site.

Subject
The Subject Tag is for what your site is. Business, music, hobby, cars. Use up to 100 characters.

Description
The Description Tag can have up to 150 characters (generally, 200 to 250 characters may be indexed, though only a smaller portion of this amount may be displayed).

Classification
The Classification tag is similar to description but more in detail.

Keywords
In the Keyword tag use everything you think someone will search for to find your site. Use 200 characters.

Geography
Where are you located? Full Address

Language
Is your site in English, Spanish, French…..?

Expires
Use “never” unless your site will expire. (Eg. Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:57:09 GMT | Note: Requires RFC1123 date as shown here

Cache Control
Cache control level.

No Cache
This directive indicates cached information should not be used and instead requests should be forwarded to the origin server.
Yes
No

Copyright
Who is the Owner of the site, Company Name

Zip Code
Your Zip Code

City
Your City, Town

Country
Your Country, use all names; USA, United States, United States Of America, America, etc.

Designer
Webmaster name

Publisher
Owner, Webmaster, Company Names.

Revisit-After
Tell search engine how often this page updates. (Eg. 21 days | Note: Most search engines do not support this Meta Tag)

Distribution
Use [Global] unless it is a [Local] only site.

Robots
The values ALL and NONE set all directives on or off: [ALL=INDEX,FOLLOW] and [NONE=NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW].

MS Tags
Do you want Microsoft products to automatically generate smart tags on your web pages.
Yes
No

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I believe that the more the better, so hope this helps you out!

Enjoy!
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