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meta tags - how do they work

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Name: warshauer
Date: April 18, 2006 at 07:29:10 Pacific
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: 2.3 ghz
Product: inspirion 9100
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I am having trouble understanding how to build meta tags. Im looking for the How to create meta tags for dummies version.



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Name: Michael J (by mjdamato)
Date: April 18, 2006 at 08:41:52 Pacific
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "build" meta tags. There are specific meta tags that can be used. However as with most things with browsers, some work in some environments, while others do not.

many meta tags are used for search engine purposes and some have certain functions. Here are some example of meta tags:

<meta name="keywords" content="sports,fishing,hunting,outdoors">
This would be an example of keywords to use on an outdoor sporting site

<meta name="description" content="Bob's Hunting & Tackle shop has all the sporting goods you need">
This is an example of a description for a site

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://www.computing.net">
This tells the page to refresh after 2 seconds. The URL (which is optional) tells it what page to refresh with (the default is itself)


Michael J


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Response Number 2
Name: StuartS
Date: April 20, 2006 at 07:18:24 Pacific
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You might find this site usefull.


Stuart


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