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DESCRIPTION Search engines that support META tags usually display the Description META tag along with your TITLE in their results. Search engines will often capture the entire description META tag, but keep in mind that when a search engines display the results to a user, there is limited space, usually under 20 words you can use to grab the users attention. KEYWORDS Search engines that support META tags will often use the keywords found on your pages as a means to categorize your website based on the search engines indexing into their data bases..Make sure you choose keywords that are relevant to your site and avoid excessive repetition because many search engines will penalize your rankings for attempting to abuse their system. Similar to the Description META Tag, search engines give priority to the first few words. ABSTRACT The Abstract META tag is very similar to the description Meta tag, except a brief summary of the description META tag. Usually the Abstract META tag is a one line sentence which gives an overview of the webpage. Search engines do not as often use this tag, but it is a useful to search engines that read the first few lines of text in your webpages. REVISIT The Revisit-After META tag tells the "Robot" indexing your site to return after a predetermined amount of days to re-index your web site. This helps to keep your search engine listings up to date. IMPORTANT: You may be penalized by search engines if your "revisit-after" days are less then 30. ROBOT (INDEX) The Robot META tag allows you to control what the "Robot" will and will not index. "Index, Follow" allows the the web page and it's linked web pages to be indexed. "No Index, Follow" only allows linked pages to be indexed, ignoring the current web page and "Index, No Follow" allows only the current web page to by indexed. |