How to improve the chances of search engines finding site

[philip56]

I am trying to increase the chances of my site getting a good rating by search engines. So far, I have put meta tags for content and keywords in my index.html file and installed contributions for robots.txt and spiders.txt.

 

I recently came across a site that has the following in its index.html file.

 

<meta name="robots" content="ALL,INDEX,FOLOW">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALADIN">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="Googlebot">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="SCOOTER">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="GOOGLEBOT">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="CRAWLER">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="EULE-ROBOT">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="EXCITE">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="FLIPPER/1.1">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="SMARTCRAWL">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="MOTOR0.5">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="MARINER">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="LYCOS">

<meta name="revisit-after" content="3 days" /><meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

<LINK href="eazymail.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet>

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT = "All">

 

Could anyone please give me a potted explanation of what this code does and if it is worth having. Any other practical tips would be much appreciated.

 

Regards

 

Philip

[Jack_mcs]

The above just does the same thing a robots file does but it is added to the text on your page, which isn't a good idea. What you need to do is install a meta tags contribution, like Header Tags or Dynamic Meta Tags. Adding keywords to your index file will do little for the overall site.

 

Jack

[philip56]

The above just does the same thing a robots file does but it is added to the text on your page, which isn't a good idea. What you need to do is install a meta tags contribution, like Header Tags or Dynamic Meta Tags. Adding keywords to your index file will do little for the overall site.

 

Jack

 

Thanks Jack, That was useful.

 

Philip