{"id":5,"date":"2006-07-13T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T17:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-11-02T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T21:50:49","slug":"search-engines-meta-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/search-engines-meta-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engines &#038; Meta Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of the Internet, many search engines used Meta tags to know what content a web site contained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meta Tag<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meta_tags\">defination<\/a>) are as important as they were in the early days of the Internet.   &#8220;In the early 2000s, search engines have veered away from reliance on meta tags since many web sites used inappropriate meta keywords or a technique known as keyword stuffing, in order to increase their search engine ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Some search engines still take meta tags into consideration when delivering results, though most of the major search engines ignore them.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meta_tags\">wikipedia.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>E<\/strong><strong>xample<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHere is an example of what a newspaper could use for tags:  <strong>Description Tags:<\/strong> Local news, obituaries, sports, opinion, classifieds, career builder, cars.com, and community information from the &#8216;city&#8217; paper<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords: <\/strong>newspaper&#8217;s name, [website url], city, state, careers, Classifieds, Jobs<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> Search Engine Submissions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGoogle has agreements with <a href=\"http:\/\/dir.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Directory<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/dmoz.org\/\">Open Directory Project<\/a> index, which is owned by Netscape to include the sites indexed in their directories in the Google index.<\/p>\n<p>Sites can be submited to <a href=\"http:\/\/dir.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Directory<\/a> by clicking on the <a title=\"Suggest a site to Yahoo\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dir\/home\/*https:\/\/ecom.yahoo.com\/dir\/express\/intro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Suggest a Site<\/a> link on their site.<\/p>\n<p>Sites can be submitted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dmoz.org\/\">Open Directory<\/a> project by clicking on the link <a title=\"Suggest URL\" href=\"http:\/\/dmoz.org\/add.html\">Suggest URL<\/a> on their site.<\/p>\n<p>If a site is added above, there is no reason to add it to Google, since Google pulls from those directories. However, sites can be added to Google by going to <a title=\"submit a site to Google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/addurl\/?continue=\/addurl\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/submit_content.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Engine Optimization (SEO)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=35291\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=35291<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>__________________<br \/>\nNote: Most of this information was found at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meta_tags\">wikipedia.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of the Internet, many search engines used Meta tags to know what content a web site contained. Meta Tag (defination) are as important as they were in the early days of the Internet. &#8220;In the early &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/search-engines-meta-tags\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-randomlings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}