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Template and Meta..igonored

google ignoring title, keywords, description

RicePuddin

5:19 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

hi,

first post so be gentle,

I have a site which runs on two templates made in DWeaver 4, I am now using MX if that makes a difference.

I have a PR 3 for this site, yet the keywords, title and description have been ignored, I notice I can't post the url so here is the code for the top of the pages, can anyone see why google (and all seo simulators i tried) misses the meta stuff out?

<html>
<head>

<title>MY SITE TITLE</title>
<meta name="keywords" KEY WORDS HERE">
<meta name="description" DESCRIPTION HERE">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="Css/Panels.css" type="text/css">

just can not see the reason why google etc and this is supposed to be the macromedia work around placing the meta in the doc title region but se's ignore it all ...grrrr
thanks if you can help

Dreamquick

5:28 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm sure someone who types faster will beat me to this but as far as I know Google ignores keywords metatags completely (too easy to spam using them), ditto for description apart from very rare cases (they normally give excerpts of the page content instead of using the description meta)...

That said it should use the TITLE tag unless we are mid update and it knows the site exists but hasn't gotten around to crawling it yet.

- Tony

jimbeetle

5:37 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi RicePuddin,

Welcome to WW. I'm not familiar with DW and any of its issues with SEs, but unless those are typos in your example the correct syntax for the metas should be:

Hope it's as simple as that, but...

Jim

RicePuddin

9:36 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

nah I copied a pasted it straight from my page...seems strange that DW should do it differently.....will sort it so it reads as above,

I heard google ignores meta but wanted title in there..lol

thanks