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It's important to write your web pages in such a way that the search engines reward you with a high page rank and good placement. It's not luck, there are many elements in the of an HTML file that help determine a site's organic search engine results. At least consider putting these lines in the HTML for your main index.html page. Build your web pages correctly and you'll place better in search results. You can do this whether you write your files by hand or use a web authoring tool.

Drag select the following text, then copy and paste it into your HTML files.

<head>
<!-- Copyright 2008 Jerry Whiting. All rights reserved. example meta tags 30jan08 -->
<!-- change the language tags if your page isn't English; -->
<!-- http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/ -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
<meta name="language" content="en-us" />
<!-- may this page spread throughout the web -->
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
<!-- http://www.html-reference.com/META_name_rating.htm -->
<meta name="rating" content="general" />
<!-- a branding & tagging opportunity -->
<meta name="owner" content="JetCityOrange">
<!-- name dropping -->
<meta name="author" content="Jerry Whiting" />
<!-- boilerplate; just use it -->
<meta name="resource-type" content="document" />
<!-- make the search engines evaluate your site, not rely on the Open Directory Project entry -->
<meta name="robots" content="noodp">
<!-- never underestimate the importance of the title tag. 64 characters or less. -->
<title>Vegetarian Breakfast Recipes</title>
<!-- every keyword or key phrase someone might use to search for your site -->
<meta name="keywords" content="Alice, Bob, Carol, Dave, Eve, Isaac, Ivan, Justin, Mallory, Matilda, Oscar, Pat, Plod, Steve, Trent, Trudy, Walter, Zoe" />
<!-- the blurb someone might see when the search engine displays your site as one of its results -->
<!-- write something compelling enough to make me go to your site out of all the returned results. 180 characters or less. -->
<meta name="description" content="How to build a time space machine to go back in history or into the future. Travel through time, no batteries required. Chrono-Traveler Unltd., West Seattle WA, makes the TimeTravlr 1000." />
<!-- some search engines might return the abstract; why not double up and be safe -->
<meta name="abstract" content="DIY instructions for building a working time space machine. Go back in history or into the future. Chrono-Traveler Unltd., West Seattle WA, manufactures the TimeTravlr 1000.">
<!-- I strongly suggest including the Dublin Core meta tags next, at least for the main index page -->
<!-- http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ -->
<!-- ror.xml files are sitemaps that direct the search spiders through your site -->
<!-- update the ror.xml file whenever you update your site; http://www.auditmypc.com/xml-sitemap.asp -->
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="ror.xml" />
</head>

The comment lines can be removed but I keep the first comment line for myself as much as anything else.


An alternative is to use this server and then check it with this server.

Double check your head. Remember to check for broken links, use an online HTML validator to check your HTML. Try making a map of your web site or look for link love. Nothing, and I mean nothing, beats Xenu.