Agustine Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 What are the point of the meta tags?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Design Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 The meta tags hold information for the search engine bots. The bots read the information and store it. When someone types in a keyword listed in one of your meta tags your website will be in the reuslts.You ca also use something called robots.txt to send information to search engine bots.For more information i suggest you read this tutorial by W3: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_meta.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real_illusions Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 most search engine bots dont go for the meta keywords tag anymore, as it was abused by people, who put in words that had no relevance to their site in order to boost their rankings and site visibility in search results.although the title and description meta tags still do help. but its mainly based on other things, such as content and linkings to help boost your search rankings for what your customers/viewers are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Design Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 So robot.txt would be better. Although it more tells what the robot to do you can still make it review relavent information.Google has a submission form for web developers to submit their site url for the bot to review... http://www.google.com.au/addurl/?continue=/addurl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark H Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Hi, bumping up this old topic as I found it on a search and it seemed the most relevant.I want to create a robot.txt file for search engines - mainly, on one site, to tell bots to ignore certain pages.But, I haven't a clue how to write a robot.txt file.Is there a tutorial on W3S for this?Thanks,Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boen_robot Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Look hereNext time, try to Google it (ironically enough). "robots.txt" was the search term I used for that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark H Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks boen,Yes, I'm going to have to get used to using Google..it's long overdue!But thanks for that link.Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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