Meta Tags can help you get good placements on search engines easier, and they are now used by almost all the engines. Meta tags allow bots to visit your page more often, and add them to the indexes. So if you are not using meta tags, it's time to start!
Placement of the Tags
InvisionFree users i would recommend placing them within your DOCTYPE template, or, you can place them in your Javascript template too. As long as the information is displayed before the </head> tag then this means that Google and other search engine bots will appropriately treat them as Meta Tags.
Some useful Meta Tags Quote:
| <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Description of your forum here"> |
Be sure to use keywords that describe your forum. If you put "You can buy/sell baseball cards here" in the content area, and some one searched for "buy/sell baseball cards" your board would be in that index.
Quote:
| <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Invision skins, Graphics, forum reviews"> |
With that code, when people search for "invision skins" your board would fall under that index because that is one of your keywords.
If you are making updates to your site or updating frequently, it is helpful to ask the robots to revisit your site after a certain time. If your not updating much, then set it for a longer time. This is a great way to get your site on the map if your struggling.
Quote:
| <META NAME="revisit after" CONTENT="30days"> |
So to summarise your META Tag data could look like so:
<head> <title>The Staff Lounge</title> <meta name="keywords" content="staff lounge, vbseo, vbulletin styles, vbulletin, admin forum, community, jelsoft, admin, vbulletin support, vbulletin resources, vbulletin webmasters, vbwebmaster" /> <meta name="description" content="Meta Tags can help you get good placements on search engines easier, and they are now used by almost all the engines."
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