META Before You LIST

META Before You LIST

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"Spider" Search Engines: These search engines only ask for your site URL or address and possibly an e-mail address and title. All of the related key words or phrases are extracted automatically from your site's META tag lines when they scan your site. Information about how to setup these descriptive and keyword lists follows:

Meta HTML commands must be inserted into your home page HTML code so that the spider search engines will pick up your keywords. Below is an example of where to place these commands and what they look like. Once the META lines are in place, you can then list your site with the spider search engines by returning to and completing the previous page and sequentially submitting your site to the available spider search engines.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Title</TITLE>
<META name="description" content="Description of your company.">
<META name="keywords" content="Keywords and phrases separarated by commas">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
. . .
</BODY>
</HTML>