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Lisa Terzigni

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Hi, I am new to this site, but we have an osCommerce site www.power41.com. I am trying to add in some text I have written for keywords, but have no idea how to add it. If you can give me some pointers I'd really appreciate it. Once I have it added, I will re-do my banners and add more text/keywords there, but I need this starting point first. Thanks in advance...Lisa :rolleyes:

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In index.php near line 37 before < / head > tag

 

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html <?php echo HTML_PARAMS; ?>>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo CHARSET; ?>">
<title><?php echo TITLE; ?></title>
<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER : HTTP_SERVER) . DIR_WS_CATALOG; ?>">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
</head>

 

Add a code something like this:

 

<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="yoursite.com">
 <META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="Copyright (c) by yoursite.com">
 <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Key, Words, Separated, By, Comma">
 <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Description of your site">

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Hi, I am new to this site, but we have an osCommerce site www.power41.com. I am trying to add in some text I have written for keywords, but have no idea how to add it. If you can give me some pointers I'd really appreciate it. Once I have it added, I will re-do my banners and add more text/keywords there, but I need this starting point first. Thanks in advance...Lisa :rolleyes:

For them to be effective, you need to install one of the meta tags contribution. I recommend Header Tags SEO but there are others.

 

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  • 4 weeks later...
Header Tags SEO is great! I have it on my site. It's a bit involved to install, but the results are worth it. My search engine positions are way up. :)

 

~Wendy

 

 

Metas: It won't do anything... Optimize your titles for the page. Use the same Title in anchor text. It will do work for you instead you do SEO.

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Metas: It won't do anything... Optimize your titles for the page. Use the same Title in anchor text. It will do work for you instead you do SEO.

 

I see that "Mississippi" is banned, and no wonder - he gives bad advice! (although you need to do worse than that to be banned). :huh:

 

In the mysterious world of search engine optimization, meta tags still do something, but perhaps less than they once did. Optimize them.

 

Optimize your titles, too - and if you can, optimize your domain name and even individual filenames - search engines now give quite a bit of weight to these.

 

Place keywords near the tops of your pages, preferably enclosed in HTML header tags (such as <H2>).

 

For efficiently optimizing meta tags and product pages, I still recommend Header Tags SEO. It does much of what I've mentioned, and these improvements will be very effective.

 

~Wendy

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Meta Keywords and Descriptions do next to nothing for SEO anymore. I agree that the Header Tags SEO is a must for optimising your site, but mainly for the Title tag attribute.

 

 

The Ultimate SEO URL contribution is also a must, as it will put product keywords in the individual product page URLs, and those are important keywords to include in your keyword strategy.

 

Apart from the Title tag and URL, I would focus most of your attention on the content of your pages, and make sure that your keywords and keyword combinations are present throughout the text content. I agree that you should be placing important keywords at the top of your text in h1 or h2 tags, but also put them in ALT attributes of images, as well as links that point to that page.

 

But don't try to cram too many keyword combinations into a single page, spread them out over different pages.

 

However, once you do that, the hard work starts! The only way to get your site up the search engines is to build high quality inbound links from good PR rated sites.

 

Hope this helps.

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Meta Keywords and Descriptions do next to nothing for SEO anymore.

This isn't correct. All search engines still use them. They don't use them as they used to though. People got used to just cramming as many keywords into the tag as possible (I still see this), without even thinking of using those keywords on the page. That is what the search engines complain about and both google and yahoo have stated they won't use them in such a case. Google went further and said that if they find a page where keywords are loaded for the purpose of influencing the results, they would probably not index that page. But if the keywords are kept low, I don't recommend anymore than three/page, and the text on that page uses those keywords, then they will make a difference.

 

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... if the keywords [in the meta tags] are kept low, I don't recommend anymore than three/page, and the text on that page uses those keywords, then they will make a difference.

 

Jack

 

I have found this to be true, Jack, (the proof is in the pudding!). Since implementing this approach, my search engine positions are way up. B)

 

Thanks, mayo23, for your suggestion of using keywords in ALT tags for images. And yes, inbound links are paramount.

 

~Wendy

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