session 32 - META TAGS PT 2
session 32 - META TAGS PT 2
The NAME attribute is the name of a property. The HTML spec does not really define any fixed list of properties that must be supported , and it is up to the viewing client to pick and choose what information to respond to. The CONTENT attribute specifies a string value to associate as the content/value of the property .The CHARSET attribute, specifies the international name of a character set. These character sets specify a mapping and repertoire of available characters. In most cases , one would be better using "ISO 8859-1". This character set covers most western languages and symbols. This is also the character set most commonly referenced in various documentation.The HTTP-EQUIV attribute is the name of a http header property. The HTML spec does not really define any fixed list of properties that must be supported , and it is up to the viewing agent to pick and choose what information to respond to. The difference between HTTP-EQUIV and the NAME attribute is that HTTP-EQUIV entries are represenative of http headers, whereas the NAME arribute is more reflective of a property associated with the page. <META name="copyright" content="a sentence or so declaring copyright Information">Makes a copyright message available which may or may not be displayed by a search engine.
<META name="author" content="a sentence identifying the author">META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3; URL= http://www.drclue.net/index.html"
The two parameters to the "Refresh" command are :The First "3" specifies a delay value in seconds. After the page has completely loaded the browser will wait 3 seconds before loading the resource. This value can be 0 The Second http://users.abac.com/drclue/index.html, is the URL of the resource to load. To specify an audio file and a Delay value of 0 will cause the browser to play the specified audio file, while allowing the user to continue reading your page with an audio background. Most search engines are unable to recognize <FRAMES> as a searchable/indexable item, and therefore frames based pages are not indexed, because there are no <A> tags which is the standard fair of search engines.You can solve the problem by simply adding a <NOFRAMES> section to your frames document and add a <A> tag that points to a page with represenative links to all your framed pages.
The HTML "BODY" tag also comes into play for many search engines. Rather than emphasizing what you say is important in your title and META tags, some search engines analyze the content of your site to determine its relevance to people who use their search engine. This is most often done by analyzing the words that appear within the HTML "BODY" tag. Often these analyses assign more importance to the first few paragraphs of content, so be sure that the pages you want indexed have strong opening content.
If your site uses a lot of graphics, and you want to attempt to get the content of the images indexed, be sure to use the ALT attribute of the IMG tag. Some search engines index the alternate text that you include in this tag along with the other content on your page.
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