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Welcome to wbmasterworld!
For the robots.txt file, i would suggest that you do a search in your favourite engine and type in something like robots.txt you should be able to find a tutorial.
There are a few good places to get started with basic html such as [w3schools.com...]
If you get stuck with that then post back, explain what you are looking for in terms of the layout for the header and we can point you in a more specific direction.
All the best.
Dwighty
p.s. html is worth knowing as it's a good foundation for web work.
Robots.txt Tutorial [searchengineworld.com]
Robtos.txt Validator [searchengineworld.com]
Thank you so much
<html>
<head>
<title>my site info</title>
<meta http-equiv="title" content="[page title]">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days">
<meta name="classification" content="consumer">
<meta name="description" content="[site description]">
<meta name="keywords" content="[80+ keywords] ">
<meta name="robots" content="all">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="rating" content="general">
<meta name="copyright" content="1998 - 2003">
<meta name="web author" content="author name">
</head>
[edited by: encyclo at 4:15 pm (utc) on Oct. 7, 2005]
[edited by: tedster at 4:33 pm (utc) on Oct. 7, 2005]
[edit reason] remove specifics [/edit]
Meta Tags and More -- from <head> to </head> [webmasterworld.com]
I just want a basic HTML header so robots can access my site and index it.
Stay really simple -- and do read the link I posted. 80 keywords is not going to do anything for you, the re-visit tag is ignored, and so on (see the link I posted in the previous message). There is a lot of really crazy advice out on the web about meta tags andit will just waste your time.
You could probably do OK with just a <title> tag.
Thanks for all your help, a few more question you said 80 keywords is going to do nothing for you. Does that mean add more keywords to increase website sucess, is there a limit? And in the article you posted, the tags that were listed are those general tags, in other words could I retype
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
and add it to my site or do I need to go through and change somethings.
The one important element is the title tag. That most definitely is used with significant weight in the searche engines and it often ends up as the tect you click on in a search result.
The issue of a DTD is a bit more technical because you need to use html that was created with a specific dtd in mind -- or else your page layout may blow up on one or another browser.
You can probably use the DTD you pasted in with no problem. It's what is called a partial dtd because it doesn't include a link to a definition document at the W3C. Learning about the DTD is relatively complex -- in fact, we have over 11,000 pages here that talk about it!
Didn't know about Search Engine World, went to check it out and got this:
"Back in a few days, weeks, months, or years ;-)"
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"Back in a few days, weeks, months, or years ;-)"
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I did the same, I done a site search with google and realised I did know the site, just not the name ;-)
