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Meta problem.

Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:12 pm
by sharky
I wanted to meta all my products/services/web name. But it looks like when I google my website name, etc, they don't show up. This is what I did :

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<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Buy Mobile Phones from hitech-cell an Online Mobile Shop. LG, Motorola....>
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Mobile Phones, Montreal online mobile phone, Cell Phones Canada, Hitech-cell... >
<META NAME="Author" content="hitech-cell.com"> 
<META name="ROBOTS" content="index,follow">
<base href="http://www.hitech-cell.com/">
What else should I do to make them appear in search engines?

Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:14 pm
by Burrito
do a search on this forum for SEO (search engine optimization).

there's a lot more to it than just placing keywords in the metatags any more. really you just need to write some good copy and spatter some keywords thoughout your page. also, having a page that is valid HTML helps a lot :D

Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:37 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Quality links help too, from what I understand. The more your site links out AND the more links your site gets. Meta tags are still used, but I believe that there is not much weight given to them (or not as much as before).

Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:33 pm
by matthijs
Meta tags do little or nothing for Google. For some other search engines maybe a bit.
SEO is 3 things:
- many and especially good links in
- relevant content, interesting, lots of it and updated frequently
- good code, meaning clean and valid html
The second and third are entirely up to you. And as you provide relevant and interesting content, good links will start coming in.

But, considering the keywords you have, it will be a though job. Lots of competition..

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:57 am
by sharky
Well, when i google : hitech-cell, it shows a few results. These results are on websites (free ad posting service) where I posted my ad. "www.hitech-cell.com"

I didn't know that META does not contribute much in search engines. But I was hoping that it will do all the job.

Regarding clean HTML, I know that my pages has some HTML errors, where they are marked/underlined : Most of them says;

"The background attribute of the TD tag, is not supported [Netscape Navigator 4.0/Netscape Navigator 6.0]"

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<td width="95" background="images/t_13.gif"><img src="images/t_12.gif" width="6" height="9" alt="" border="0"></td>
What else can I do to fix this? Do you call this 'serious HTML' error, or it's no big deal? Thanks

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:23 am
by Roja
sharky wrote:I didn't know that META does not contribute much in search engines. But I was hoping that it will do all the job.
META does have *some* benefit, its just extremely small. Its much more effective to write a good site, that is updated often, that people visit.
sharky wrote:Regarding clean HTML, I know that my pages has some HTML errors, where they are marked/underlined ...

What else can I do to fix this? Do you call this 'serious HTML' error, or it's no big deal? Thanks
There is no "serious" or "not serious" to HTML errors. It either IS an error, or it is not.

Since you want better search engine ranking, its a binary issue - yes or no.

As to how to fix it, apply the background to the TD using CSS.

(Psuedo code):

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<td style="width:95px; background-image:'images/t_13.gif'"><img src="images/t_12.gif" width="6" height="9" alt="" border="0"></td>
Ideally, you want to move the style information out to a seperate stylesheet, but hopefully you get the idea now.