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There recommended keyword limit is about 20.
Does the number of keywords in your tag effect your PR?
What keyword limit would you suggest.
I believe the program that I primarily use is called Hello Engines 4.1 Pro
Also keywords are not taken into consideration by the top search engines at this moment in time but it's still good practice to place them on your pages in case they do start to use them again.
The most important are a good title and description using keywords from the text you have used on your web page and anchor text for your internal and external links.
can you give us an example of a web home page that is perfect (or almost perfect) for all search engines and tell us why that home page meets all the criteria?
I've found and used [snip] and it analyzes your site and tells you what is missing and seems to be pretty good.
Many thanks for your contributions to this board.
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Title
Description
Summary
Keywords
Content
And I also use...
<meta http-equiv="pics-label" content='(pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://www.widgets.net" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1))'>(you never know when places may start filtering sites based on SOME kind of rating, better safe than sorry)
And I do my robot controlling from robots.txt. I vary the content of the tags from page to page depending on the subject matter, and try to keep the tags to a minimum. My success comes from "other" aspects of optimization. The tags are there just in case the SEs want to pay attention.
I recently used a meta tag analyzer and the results came back and said my keyword tag had to many keywords.
There recommended keyword limit is about 20.
Does the number of keywords in your tag effect your PR?
What keyword limit would you suggest.
Hi Integra,
There are search engines that still rely on meta tags.
Google will fall back to the meta description tag if it cannot find a dmoz entry description, or content on the page.
Yahoo uses meta keyword tag for content matching per page.
Others use them for different reasons and should be part of any optimization of your pages.
Typically spider bots are programed to only retain so much data per section of a web page.
I will break them down for everyone.
1. Title tag - First under <head> tag. The general thought is 88 to 96 characters here. So 10 to 12 keywords max.
2. Meta Description - Again the general idea here seems to be about 150 characters or 24 words
3. Meta Keywords This one is fairly straight forward based on text box limits of 255 characters. So max 48 keywords.
4. Image Alt Tags= Should be applied to top 3 images on the page where possible. Nobody has come up with a count here that I can remember but safe to say 88 to 96 characters 10 to 12 words, No repeats.
Also do not repeat your keywords in any of the tags back to back i.e.
"search optimization optimization website"
Hope this helps
Clint
I should have added 300 to 750 words max in body content.
Spiders only read so much here. Interlace with main keyword terms 3 to 4 times per term throught the body content focusing on the top left of your content.
Also try to include your keyword terms in the last paragraph on your page.
Clint
As far as Metas go, I always use the following tags on mine:
Title
Description
Summary
Keywords
Content
Hello SEOMike. Can you please point me to the authoritative resource for the Summary and Content metadata? I would greatly appreciate it, thanks!
Image Alt Tags= Should be applied to top 3 images on the page where possible. Nobody has come up with a count here that I can remember but safe to say 88 to 96 characters 10 to 12 words, No repeats.
Seo1, can you point me to the authoritative resource on the use of the alt attribute and where it states 88 to 96 characters and/or 10 to 12 words? I would appreciate that too. Thanks!
You said: And I do my robot controlling from robots.txt
What exactly do you put in the robots.txt?
Thanks
Several areas you can find the basis for these thoughts.
[dmoz.org...]
This one talks about search spiders :->
[robotstxt.org...]
And finally I draw my conclusions from what others have written about these areas. Most for example cite the submission boxes at Inkitomi and Dmoz.
Inkitomi has changed but if you go to DMOZ now and drill down to a category where you can submit a url when filling out the description box it tells you to limit it to 25-30 words. Average letter count of word, would be around 5 letters per word.( Im guessing) so 5 x 25 = 125 characters 5 x 30 = 150 characters.
for the meta keywords it was determined by max character sizes of most information input boxes in the mid 90s of max characters of 255.
Clint
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Building the Perfect Page - Part I - The Basics [webmasterworld.com]
Links to the authoritative documentation on the use of these elements are listed in the above referenced topic.
Several areas you can find the basis for these thoughts. [dmoz.org...]The above guidelines are for submitting a description to the ODP, they do not apply to the META Description being discussed in this topic.
Copy and past this into your notepad to allow all spiders to crawl all your pages.
[example.com...]
# All robots will spider the domain
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Or if you want to keep spiders out of certain folders.
# For domain: http://
# All robots will spider the domain
User-agent: *
Disallow:
# Disallow directory /cgi-bin/
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
# Disallow directory /images/
User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
Replace with or add more of your own folders.
You can learn more here
[robotstxt.org...]
Clint
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Hello SEOMike. Can you please point me to the authoritative resource for the Summary and Content metadata? I would greatly appreciate it, thanks!
First off... My apologies for typing the wrong thing... I had too much on my mind :-) It's Summary and CLASSIFICATION.
I developed the use of these tags for our optimization based on research I did a couple of years ago. I can't locate my original reserach / sources on the topic just now. I know that these are not *highly* valueable tags to the SEs...
Summary - Similar to the Description and the Abstract Tag. Allows you to write a small description of your site.
Classification - Similar to the Keyword tag. This is where I put secondary (less important) tags.
Summary - Similar to the Description and the Abstract Tag. Allows you to write a small description of your site.
The Abstract Tag is specific to IBM.
I could never find any documentation on the Summary Tag during my research which tells me it was probably one of those "made up" pieces of metadata that many of the online META Tag Generators produce.
Classification - Similar to the Keyword tag. This is where I put secondary (less important) tags.
Classification is an undefined Netscape Gold (HTML Editor) piece of metadata. I believe it is one of those tags that was browser and/or editor specific and never really went anywhere.
I do believe it would be safe for you to eliminate those from your documents as they may be negating other factors on the page like size, text to html ratios, etc.
P.S. I should point out that there may be other types of indices out there that utilize vendor specific pieces of metadata. These are few and far between and the one's who do use them, are usually in the educational and/or archiving industries.
The way to stop these rogue spiders is either use a .htaacess file or if you have root access to your server use the httpd conf file.
