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10-09-2006, 05:10 PM

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a little help.. im new

hi my friend has made a website and he wants to enter meta tags..

he said he has looked around on how to enter them but didnt understand

does anyone know how to enter them?

Thanks

10-09-2006, 05:13 PM

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lol webmonkey your joking right? His new to this community and your instantly trying to charge him for this.

10-09-2006, 05:19 PM

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Have a look at some of these websites:

http://www.theemiratesnetwork.com/co...r/metatag1.htm
http://www.aposition.co.uk/web_positioning_META.htm

Also, go onto any webpage on the net and view its source. You can then see how people write their meta tags.

Good luck

10-09-2006, 05:32 PM

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lol

thanks ill get him to check them out

10-09-2006, 05:39 PM

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he said the code below is what he wants to use, but he doesnt know what to do with it

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

10-09-2006, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Ryan88

he said the code below is what he wants to use, but he doesnt know what to do with it

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

Put it between the <head> and </head> tag in your HTML code.

10-10-2006, 05:54 PM

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Hello Ryan,

In the <head> element, directly below the TITLE, is where the META element goes.

Here's an example:

HTML Code:

<head>
	<title>Title of Web Page</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
	<meta name="keywords" content="Keyword 1, Keyword 2, Keyword 3" />
	<meta name="description" content="Describe what the Web page is about" />

Note that the forward slashes are present. This is required in XHTML. In HTML, remove them and the space before the closing bracket of the META tag.

10-10-2006, 08:51 PM

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Yeah, but I don't use generators. I actually have a page template that I use which allows me to just insert the appropriate meta infomration where needed

10-10-2006, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Dan Schulz

Hello Ryan,

In the <head> element, directly below the TITLE, is where the META element goes.

Here's an example:

HTML Code:

<head>
	<title>Title of Web Page</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
	<meta name="keywords" content="Keyword 1, Keyword 2, Keyword 3" />
	<meta name="description" content="Describe what the Web page is about" />

Note that the forward slashes are present. This is required in XHTML. In HTML, remove them and the space before the closing bracket of the META tag.

Exactly, and for the future -- there are actually generators our there that just let you plug your info in and get the whole code at the touch of a button. Ones such as:

http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html
http://www.addme.com/meta.htm
http://www.submitcorner.com/Tools/Meta/