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[9 Sep 2007 | 4 Comments | ]

Meta tags are located in your source code.
The head portion of your source code should contain 3 meta tags:

title
description
keywords

For best results list them in the order shown below:
<title>SEO – Learn Search Engine Optimization</title>
<meta name=“description” content=“Learn search engine optimization to obtain the highest Google and other search engine rankings possible!”>
<meta name=“keywords” content=“seo, search engine optimization, search engine rankings, google rankings”>
</head>
Your description should be an interesting description of your product or service, using your most important keywords. It should only be a couple of sentences long – take a look at how …

Meta Tags, Robots Tags »

[26 Aug 2007 | Comments Off | ]

The following information comes straight from Google.
Multiple content values
We recommend that you place all content values in one meta tag. This keeps the meta tags easy to read and reduces the chance for conflicts. For instance:
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”>
Unnecessary content values
By default, Googlebot will index a page and follow links to it. So there’s no need to tag pages with content values of INDEX or FOLLOW.
If you use both a robots.txt file and robots meta tags
If the robots.txt and meta tag instructions for a page conflict, Googlebot follows the …