Search engine tips.

Admiral Huddy · 14 Dec 2006 at 12:02

Has anyone got any tips or advice for getting my website into the search engines?

My "Repairs" website is mainly images so is there anything I can do to like changing anything in the <HEAD> for example, for the engines to pick up (Meta tags is it?)

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Beerbaron · 14 Dec 2006 at 12:09

i just googled it

http://www.google.com/addurl/

Admiral Huddy · 14 Dec 2006 at 12:35

Ok, what I meant was that most search engines look for text in websites don't they? So what do I need to do. I've been told to add meta tag??

MarcLister · 14 Dec 2006 at 12:49

Yup Metatags will sort you out here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_tag. Any good that link? Just google for metatags if you need anything else.

Admiral Huddy · 14 Dec 2006 at 13:07

Search engines began dropping support for META keywords in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered away from reliance on meta elements, and in July 2002 AltaVista, one of the last major search engines to still offer support, finally stopped including them.

Interesting? What do I do for newer engines then?

MarcLister · 14 Dec 2006 at 13:09

http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?hl=en&continue=/addurl
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/webmasters/

Admiral Huddy · 14 Dec 2006 at 14:12

ok I have to add a site map cheers.

Not as easy it once was.

lozza · 14 Dec 2006 at 15:18

Hey Huddy,

This may have got a better response in the HTML forum.

But one thing you can do seeing as your site is mostly images is to add all the relevant text to the alt tag on the image - search engines will pick this up esp. google, meta tags are still useful so do use them.

Also make sure you give your pages nice relevant title and a concise to the point description to your pages as these will all be looked at by search engines

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MarcLister · 14 Dec 2006 at 16:04

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Bookmarked for future use. Cheers.