need help with meta tags

vic · May 4, 2007

I recently moved and changed my ISP. This resulted in having to redo
several web pages and uploading to my new ISP.
I have not had my new web pages picked up by Googles search engine,
even though I submitted them last January

My pages were always at the top of searches on the subject search (The
Nea Hellas, a greek steamship of the early 20th century)

I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a critique of the meta
tags I am using on the top of html source page copied below. Any
suggestions or comments on improving the meta tags would greatly be
apreciated.

The URL of the website page is http://home.comcast.net/~idreos/MemoriesNH.htm

Thanks for your help
Vic

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft Word 97">
<TITLE>Memories of the Greek Line's Nea Hellas 1939-1955</TITLE>
<META NAME="nea hellas, tuscania, greek passenger liners, ocean
liners, greek ships, greek immigration, piraeus, greek line, greek
americans" CONTENT="GREEK">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="memories of those who traveled on
the steamship Nea Hellas and who remember her fondly">
<META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office
\HTML.DOT">
</HEAD>
<BODY LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#800080" BGCOLOR="#ffcc99">

Memories
of the
T.S.S. Nea Hellas
.To many millions of Greeks, the steamship Nea Hellas
was the ship of dreams. Many of those who were looking for a piece of
their family's distant past have been kind enough to email me their
memories of this ship. I thank them for sharing their recollections,
and thereby adding to her history. If you have any personal memories,
personal photographs or memorabilia from a voyage aboard the Nea
Hellas, Tuscania or the New York, please contact me through the email
link at the end of this web page and I will include them in future
updates.
 
<IMG SRC=" http://home.comcast.net/~idreos/PC.jpg"
WIDTH=570 HEIGHT=409>
This rare color photo is from 1956. She
was 34 years old, and had 5 years left. The long era of trans Atlantic
travel via steamship was coming to an end. 
 
 
NEW!
 We are very
fortunate to have received a unique contribution from a German
immigrant who came to the United States a half century ago on the
T.S.S. New York. This generous gift is a video made from a film on a
crossing from Bremerhaven, West Germany to New York City in October of
1955.

JH · May 4, 2007

I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a critique of the meta

tags I am using on the top of html source page copied below. Any
suggestions or comments on improving the meta tags would greatly be
apreciated.

The URL of the website page is http://home.comcast.net/~idreos/MemoriesNH.htm

Thanks for your help
Vic

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft Word 97">
<TITLE>Memories of the Greek Line's Nea Hellas 1939-1955</TITLE>
<META NAME="nea hellas, tuscania, greek passenger liners, ocean
liners, greek ships, greek immigration, piraeus, greek line, greek
americans" CONTENT="GREEK">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="memories of those who traveled on
the steamship Nea Hellas and who remember her fondly">
<META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office

For your keywords the format should be:

<meta name="keywords" content="nea hellas, tuscania, greek passenger
liners, ocean liners, greek ships, greek immigration, piraeus, greek
line, greek americans">

HTH.

Ed Mullen · May 4, 2007

JH said:
For your keywords the format should be:

<meta name="keywords" content="nea hellas, tuscania, greek passenger
liners, ocean liners, greek ships, greek immigration, piraeus, greek
line, greek americans">

HTH.

Also, meta tags are much less important to search engines these days:
Some simply ignore them. Two suggestions:

1. Try to have relevant text (such as contained in your meta tags)
appear in the actual text of the page(s)

2. Register with Google and use Google sitemaps and include a sitemap
file on your server

3. Getting other sites to include links to your page(s) can also boost
your ranking

Beauregard T. Shagnasty · May 4, 2007

vic said:
I recently moved and changed my ISP. This resulted in having to redo
several web pages and uploading to my new ISP. I have not had my new
web pages picked up by Googles search engine, even though I submitted
them last January

Perhaps Google is confused by the two missing images (NClass2.jpg and
foreaft.jpg), or perhaps Google can't read in your font choices of
"Lucida Handwriting", "Castellar", or "Book Antiqua", none of which
exist on my computer either. My browser attempts to substitute some
other script-type font for the Lucida, and it is really hard to read.

That said, search engines stopped reading meta keywords many years ago
due to abuse.

Joel Shepherd · May 5, 2007

Beauregard T. Shagnasty said:
Perhaps Google is confused by the two missing images (NClass2.jpg and
foreaft.jpg), or perhaps Google can't read in your font choices of
"Lucida Handwriting", "Castellar", or "Book Antiqua" ...

I must have missed something. Since when did Google (or any other search
engine for that matter) care about fonts specified in the document? Are
you saying the pigeons were confused?

Since "vic" moved his pages -- changed their URL -- a more likely
explanation for the problem is that all the sites that linked to his
pages in their old location still do, and _don't_ link to the pages in
the new location. Fewer links in usually means lower standings in search
results, at least on Google. "vic" could track those pages down (using
Google's "link:" syntax, contact the site owners and ask them to update
their links.

That's likely to be more effective than dorking about with font names,
doncha think?

Beauregard T. Shagnasty · May 5, 2007

Joel said:
I must have missed something. Since when did Google (or any other
search engine for that matter) care about fonts specified in the
document? Are you saying the pigeons were confused?

I'm sorry, I'll have to remove my tongue from the cheek in order to
answer you. (Was just getting in a wee shot at the poor choice of
fontfaces, and missing images.) ;-)

Since "vic" moved his pages -- changed their URL -- a more likely
explanation for the problem is that all the sites that linked to his
pages in their old location still do, and _don't_ link to the pages
in the new location. Fewer links in usually means lower standings in
search results, at least on Google. "vic" could track those pages
down (using Google's "link:" syntax, contact the site owners and ask
them to update their links.

That's likely to be more effective than dorking about with font
names, doncha think?

Oh, absolutely. Though it may not take long.

"Your search - link:home.comcast.net/~idreos/ - did not match any
documents."

JB · May 5, 2007

I recently moved and changed my ISP. This resulted in having to redo
several web pages and uploading to my new ISP.
I have not had my new web pages picked up by Googles search engine,
even though I submitted them last January

My pages were always at the top of searches on the subject search (The
Nea Hellas, a greek steamship of the early 20th century)

I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a critique of the meta
tags I am using on the top of html source page copied below. Any
suggestions or comments on improving the meta tags would greatly be
apreciated.

The URL of the website page is http://home.comcast.net/~idreos/MemoriesNH.htm

Thanks for your help
Vic

Remember to not only give the keywords, but also tell the search
engines to visit you again, to be able to fetch all the changes you
did to your page in the meantime, Alos the sub-pages should be
indexed:
<meta name="revisit-after" content="14 days">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
I did this on my page and it helps
BR
Juerg

Jukka K. Korpela · May 5, 2007

Scripsit JB:

Remember to not only give the keywords, but also tell the search
engines to visit you again,

That's pointless too.

<meta name="revisit-after" content="14 days">

They'll laugh at you. If indexing robots could be affected that easily, they
would become rather useless, when all competings authors would ask them to
visit every minute.

The only effect it _might_ reasonably have is that if an indexing robot, by
its own criteria, decided that the page is so important and has changing
content that it needs to be visited every week, it _might_ read the meta tag
and think "Oh well, a fortnight's interval shall it be then".

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

That's the default anyway, so you gain nothing.

I did this on my page and it helps

No, you have no actual evidence of any effect. It's just wishful thinking,
which would be irrelevant, but now you are telling others to do same useless
things.

Always a useful bogosity indicator, as is writing anonymously.

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