Online Meta Tag generator?

[Les & Claire]

Hello,
Just got an embryonic site up and running and I'm looking to
increase the traffic by submitting to various search engines. But I think I
need to make my page a little more "bot" friendly.
A few years ago I had a nifty little freeware programme that
generated meta tags for your site. I think it came off of .NET magazine here
in the UK. While I'm delving through a pile of dusty CD cases looking for it
I thought perhaps there may be an online version. Any ideas?
Perhaps things have moved on a little since 1997 when I had my last
site. Am I missing anything new?

Les

 

[Mikhail Esteves]

Hello,
A few years ago I had a nifty little freeware programme that
generated meta tags for your site. I think it came off of .NET magazine here
in the UK. While I'm delving through a pile of dusty CD cases looking for it
I thought perhaps there may be an online version. Any ideas?

Yep:

http://www.google.com/search?q=onli...illa-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

HTH

 

[Les & Claire]

Yep:

http://www.google.com/search?q=onli...illa-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

HTH

We can all use search engines. ( have you tried Copernic Agent pro? Much
better than Google IMO ).
Have you any experience of any of the search results you so skillfully
suplied? Any tips for making pages search engine friendly. Experience is
much more valuable than a google search result. It would have been pointless
to post were it not for the expectation to make use of the experience of the
group members here....

Les

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Experience is
much more valuable than a google search result.

But you gave no indication of what you have found out so far.
Trying to explain things without knowing what you already know is often
very difficult, if not pointless.

Let's ask this way: Have you any reason to believe that meta tags are
actually useful? In which ways?

Most probably you just want to use meta tags because someone told you,
and that someone had heard it from somewhere, etc. Do you wish to have
some more hearsay, or some facts? To get to facts, you need to
distinguish them from the usual rumors and claims. It's easy in this
case: just look at the lack of evidence that people present when they
promote meta tags.

 

[Les & Claire]

But you gave no indication of what you have found out so far.
Trying to explain things without knowing what you already know is
often very difficult, if not pointless.

Let's ask this way: Have you any reason to believe that meta tags are
actually useful? In which ways?

Most probably you just want to use meta tags because someone told you,
and that someone had heard it from somewhere, etc. Do you wish to have
some more hearsay, or some facts? To get to facts, you need to
distinguish them from the usual rumors and claims. It's easy in this
case: just look at the lack of evidence that people present when they
promote meta tags.

OK then, i'll try to rephrase.

"What is the best way to increase my exposure when someone searches for a
keyword within a search engine?"

Les

 

[Steve Pugh]

OK then, i'll try to rephrase.

"What is the best way to increase my exposure when someone searches for a
keyword within a search engine?"

Have good content on your site.

Use title and heading elements that contain relevant keywords.

Have other sites link to you.
(Good quality sites with relevant content, not just lists of links.)

Don't try to spam the search engines in any way at all.

Submit your site to the various directories (dmoz, LookSmart, Yahoo)
as these often provide a faster way into the search engine databases.
If your site is commercial in nature you will probably have to pay to
do this.

Read the various search engine submission guidelines, e.g.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Read http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

If you have the budget, buy advertising on the search engines tied to
your chosen keywords, e.g. http://www.google.com/ads/

Steve

 

[Kim André Akerø]

OK then, i'll try to rephrase.

"What is the best way to increase my exposure when someone searches for a
keyword within a search engine?"

"Keep your content of high quality, enough for other webmasters to link to
your website".

Did I get that right?

 

[Sid Ismail]

: Les & Claire wrote:
: > Hello,
: > A few years ago I had a nifty little freeware programme that
: > generated meta tags for your site. I think it came off of .NET magazine here
: > in the UK. While I'm delving through a pile of dusty CD cases looking for it
: > I thought perhaps there may be an online version. Any ideas?


http://www.clickfire.com/tools/freeware/metty/

Sid

 

[Adrienne]

Have good content on your site.

Use title and heading elements that contain relevant keywords.

Have other sites link to you.
(Good quality sites with relevant content, not just lists of links.)

Don't try to spam the search engines in any way at all.

Submit your site to the various directories (dmoz, LookSmart, Yahoo)
as these often provide a faster way into the search engine databases.
If your site is commercial in nature you will probably have to pay to
do this.

Read the various search engine submission guidelines, e.g.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Read http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

If you have the budget, buy advertising on the search engines tied to
your chosen keywords, e.g. http://www.google.com/ads/

Steve

Amen to all the above, and I'll add - use logical markup. Use elements for
what they are supposed to be for, H1-6 for headings, Lists for lists, etc.
Use tables for tabular data. Use external stylesheets. Use external
javascript files for javascript functions if your site needs them.