Web Crawlers

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    mwrugbynews · Member ·

    To One and All:

    Is there a way to get meta tags in a page? For example . . .

    <META name=”description” content=”Midwest Rugby, Midwest Rugby Territorial News provides Rugby information and links to the USA and the world”>
    <META name=”keywords” content=”Midwest Rugby, Midwest Rugby Territorial News, Rugby Territorial News, Territorial News, Rugby, Rugby Territory, Rugby Territories, Rugby Territorial Union, Rugby Union, Rugby Unions, USA Rugby, Rugby Super League, Super League Rugby, International Rugby, Rugby links, Men’s Rugby, Women’s Rugby, Collegiate Rugby, U23 Rugby, Youth Rugby, U19 Rugby, High School Rugby, Boys Rugby, Girls Rugby, All Rugby, Rugby Clubs, Rugby Club, Rugby search, Allegheny Rugby Union, Chicago Area Rugby Union, Illinois Rugby Union, Indiana Rugby Union, Iowa Rugby Union, Michigan Rugby Union, Minnesota Rugby Union, Ohio Rugby Union, Wisconsin Rugby Union, hooker, maul, ruck, scrums, Rugby history, USA Rugby, USA Rugby Eagle Rugby, Eagles, American Rugby, Rugby Gear, Ruggers, Rugby Tournaments, Rugby Sevens, Rugby 7s, Rugby All Stars, and the Thunderbirds”>
    <META NAME=”Contact” CONTENT=”Shawn A. McKinney, (email visible only to moderators and staff), (US) 618-829-3806″>
    <META NAME=”Programming” CONTENT=”Shawn A. McKinney, (email visible only to moderators and staff), with a little help from my friends, Jim Clawson, (email visible only to moderators and staff) and J. Scot Prunckle, (email visible only to moderators and staff)”>
    <META NAME=”Design” CONTENT=”Shawn A. McKinney, (email visible only to moderators and staff), with a little help from my friends, Jim Clawson, (email visible only to moderators and staff), and J. Scot Prunckle, (email visible only to moderators and staff)”>

    I’m not sure if you can put that above all the CSS data, like above the /* . . . right now there’s this . . .

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN”
    “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”>
    <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” dir=”ltr” lang=”en”>
    <head>
    <title> Midwest Rugby News</title>
    <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress.com” />

    <!– Basic Meta Data –>
    <meta name=”copyright” content=”Vigilance Theme Design: Copyright 2008 – 2009 Jestro LLC” />
    <meta http-equiv=”imagetoolbar” content=”no” />
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />

    And then several lines before you get to the /* which starts the CSS data.

    Any knowledge of ‘how to’ get the tags in would be greatly appreciated, because search engines will find your site easier with all that, or at least that’s what I’ve been told.

    Cheers,
    Shawn

    Shawn A. McKinney, Thunderhead Marketing, 422 N. Main Street, St. Elmo, IL 62458 – Phone: 618-829-3806
    E-mail addresses: (email visible only to moderators and staff) – for documents over 10MB please send to, (email visible only to moderators and staff)

    Midwest Territorial Rugby News Editor:
    http://www.midwestrugby.org (webmaster – my site – communicating to over 15,000 members)

    Midwest Rugby News: http://midwestrugbynews.com/ (my blog site for news about Rugby)

    Illinois Rugby Union: http://www.illinoisrugby.com (webmaster)

    Eastern Illinois University Men’s Rugby Club coach: http://www.eiu.edu/~eiurugby (webmaster)

    St. Louis Royals Rugby Club: http://www.stlroyalsrugby.com (webmaster)

    Belmont Shore Rugby Club old, old, old boy: http://www.belmontshorerfc.com – one of the original seven founding members

    Dead Goat Rugby Touring Side (Park City Haggis) old, old, old boy: http://www.haggisrugby.com/ – one of the original six founding members

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • tellyworth · Staff ·

    Sorry, no, there’s no way to do that on WordPress.com.

    Please note that search engines generally ignore meta keywords, and in some cases they may do more harm than good.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    No there isn’t here since for the most part, meta tags are given little weight by the search engines anymore because they were so overused and abused early on.

    What you want to do is use appropriate categories and tags for your posts, and don’t go over 12 total (tags + categories) or you will end up getting excluded from the wordpress global tags pages, which gives your blog considerable weight when it comes to SEO.

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    mwrugbynews · Member ·

    Kay and ‘the sacred path’:

    Thanks for your quick response, and thanks for all the information. Some of the programmers I’ve been dealing with must have learned about all that from others in the dark ages . . . wink, wink. Think I’ll go back and reduce the number of tags I’ve got in my main Rugby site, http://www.midwestrugby.org, and all my other Rugby sites too.

    I guess submitting a site to Google and other search engines is still a good way to go, right, or does WordPress do that for you once you’ve got a site up?

    Cheers,
    Shawn

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Google will find you regardless, but it is a good idea to have them verify your site. It jump starts the process.

    http://faq.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/how-do-i-verify-my-site-with-google/

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