| Nav_teacher |
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| Thu Mar 17 2005 07:17 AM |
Keywords
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I've redesigned my website using a template driven website with a java dropdown menu @ http://members.aol.com/MCAOrals/Index.htm
my problem is are the keywords being picked up from the template, or does the keyword get picked up from individual webpages?
or do I need to insert keywords into the template and individual webpages
thanks for any help in advance
| slapmatt |
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| Thu Mar 17 2005 08:34 AM |
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Re: Keywords
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Looking at your pages it seems that the keywords are coming from the template rather than the individual pages. I can see that you have placed some keywords on the homepage, but they are right at the top of the code rather than within the <head> tags.
Couple of other points:
You have placed <strong> tags within your keywords, I'm not sure what you are trying to do here, but at best they will be ignored and at worse they will confuse the search engines.
Your page titles say "MCA_Oral Exams information" throughout your site - i'd suggest you make the titles reflect the page they are on.
You have alot of styles and javascript in your page - consider putting these in css and js include files.
Other than that - the site looks good, it easy to navigate and seems to have lots of good quality content!
| Nav_teacher |
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| Thu Mar 17 2005 11:01 AM |
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Re: Keywords
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the template is controlling my website, when I open individual webpages the area between <head> and <head/> are greyed out and I cannot insert keywords/descriptions between them, could do with help with this, I'm not getting punters because of this, and as its an education website, its failing badly
I'm not great with coding, graphics/safety/nautical subjects is my speciality, thanks to everyone for any help
| slapmatt |
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| Thu Mar 17 2005 11:40 AM |
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Re: Keywords
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I'm assuming that your template is in Dreamweaver?
There is an editable region called "doctitle" which I suggest you move all your <title> and <meta> tags into rather than having them in the main template. This should allow you to edit them on a page by page basis.
If you want to get a high search engine ranking I suggest you do the following:
Buy a descriptive top level domain name, something like:
MCAOrals.com
MCAOralExams.com
or similar. Search engines look at the domain name for keywords and place high emphisis on this.
Place descriptive page titles and keywords on the titles for each page - this is deemed very highly by the search engines.
Make effective use of <h1>,<h2> etc tags to highlight your page headings.
Try and put as much as you can in style sheets. You have an awful lot of "inline styles", ie. <font> tags on your page. This means that the actual content of your site is alot less previlant.
Get lots of other sites linking to your site. Get listed in free directories, especially dmoz.org which feeds into search engines such as Google and Yahoo! There should also be lots of free education directories you can get listed on too.
Hope that helps!
| Nav_teacher |
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| Thu Mar 17 2005 09:44 PM |
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Re: Keywords
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Pure Magic, now all the keywords are going into individual webpages, but a new problem, you mentioned "Make effective use of <h1>,<h2> etc tags to highlight your page headings"
would it be similar to this
<h1> MCAOrals <h1/> would I use this for the description/title?
thanks