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Old 07-21-2007, 06:51 AM META, how much do I need?
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Hi people.
What META do I need more if I already have
<meta name ="keywords" content=" .......
and
<meta name ="description" content=" ....... ??

Check the source code of:
http://www.video-graphic.com/

I have the same META tags on each page of my site in 3 different languages.
Is it enough or should I add something?
It's my first web experience, so I don't know much about it.....
Thanks.
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Old 07-21-2007, 07:13 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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If you can make them unique to each page its going to be better but most people argue that

META KEYWORDS are almost obsolete
META DESCRIPTIONS are only displayed in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) but otherwise don't hold much Search engine optimization value ...

So don't worry much about them instead worry about unique/nice content to your site and nice/quality/relevant backlinks with appropriate anchor text in them
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Old 07-21-2007, 08:06 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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Do you have any example of "relevant backlinks with appropriate anchor text in them"? What do you mean?
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Old 07-21-2007, 10:30 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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Lets say that you want people to find you when searching for

"graphic video"

try to get backlinks from RELEVANT (if possible) sites and ask their webmasters to include this kind of link for you
<a href="http://www.video-graphic.com/">graphic video</a>


get as many backlinks as possible
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Old 07-21-2007, 04:08 PM Re: META, how much do I need?
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I don't think the site need to be related, but otherwise, "experiment" gave you terrific advice. If, say, the BBC decided your site was important enough to link to, even though you aren't a news outlet, I think Google will see that as a very strong endorsement. It helps to get the links from sites that people who would like yours will already be on, so other sites about video and graphics will send you better qualified traffic.

Notice that xprmnt's latest blog post mentions how to get some links. You might want to visit his blog and investigate this.
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Old 07-22-2007, 12:28 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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Hi people.
What META do I need more if I already have
<meta name ="keywords" content=" .......
and
<meta name ="description" content=" ....... ??
Depending on your goals, you may want to add a robots tag to specify which pages should or should not be indexed, and/or which links should or should not be followed.

While not absolutely necessary, and certainly not full proof, many sites do add them for the sake of excluding certain hidden pages or what have you.
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Old 07-23-2007, 03:32 PM Re: META, how much do I need?
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It's not easy to get my link on other sites....
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Old 07-23-2007, 04:24 PM Re: META, how much do I need?
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For free links here is some options

free directories (directorycritic.com has a nice list)
your forum signatures
social bookmarking sites (digg, stumbleupon, del.icio.us etc)
start a blog about your site (from wordpress.com or blogger.com etc)

its not hard it just needs time ....

for paid links lots of offers on all webmaster forums
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Old 07-24-2007, 02:22 PM Re: META, how much do I need?
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Keep in mind the days of adding mass amounts of meta keywords are almost gone, as xprmnt said, they are almost obsolete.
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Old 07-25-2007, 08:25 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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Strange I just received rejection from a directory, here is the text:
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Hello,
This email is to inform you that your article directory has been rejected from
Directory Critic.
The reason your directory was rejected is:
"If you fix the problem with your directory you're more than welcome to resubmit"
it.
Regards,
The Critic
3w.directorycritic.com/
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Am I only one who doesn't understand a thing out of their explanation?
Or my site is a bad one? www.video-graphic.com
What did I do wrong?
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Old 07-25-2007, 11:28 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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you must be REALLY new to all this

directory critic is a site that holds .... directories
if you have a directory ... then submitted there
Hint: your site http://www.video-graphic.com/ IS NOT a directory

So if YOU DON'T have a directory then just take a look at their list
and visit each directory and submit your site on each one of those directories
(but don't submit to the directory critic website, at most you can review a directory there)

I hope that is clear, if not post again

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Old 07-25-2007, 11:28 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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If you choose to use a keyword tag, the words/phrases should be kept to 10 or less.

Meta tags analysis.Title:Title relevancy to page content is terrible.
The Title relevancy to page content is 0%.
Description:Description relevancy to page content is terrible.
The Description relevancy to page content is 0%.
Keywords:Keyword relevancy to page content is terrible. However, this is not necessarily bad if you have a lot of content. The most important factor is to have your keywords on the page a few times.
The keywords relevancy to page content is 0%.
The issue here is you have no text.............there are workarounds for such pages that you should investigate. The Meta information for this page is not likely to be indexed properly for keyword or phrase queries. Google especially returns SERPs that are using relevant Titles and descriptions. Since you have no content on that page in the robots eyes, it can never be relevant. Search engines no longer allow you to use Meta information to tell them what search queries to index your pages for...they get this from your keyword density. But, no text, no density either.

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Old 07-25-2007, 06:28 PM Re: META, how much do I need?
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you must be REALLY new to all this

directory critic is a site that holds .... directories
if you have a directory ... then submitted there
Hint: your site http://www.video-graphic.com/ IS NOT a directory

So if YOU DON'T have a directory then just take a look at their list
and visit each directory and submit your site on each one of those directories
(but don't submit to the directory critic website, at most you can review a directory there)

I hope that is clear, if not post again
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Oh. Bugger!
Thanks. I'll learn, little by little....
Anyway this is nothing compared to what I had to go through to make my photoshop sketch to become a site. That was really a nightmare!
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Old 07-26-2007, 07:21 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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OK no problem, video graphic

we were all once in your position, just read a lot in this and other forums ...
and post relevant questions ....

A recommended book for SEO (search engine optimization) for newbies is "SEOBOOK" from aaron wall ... if you can get your hands on it then you'll learn a lot in a sort period of time.
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Old 07-26-2007, 07:48 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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If you choose to use a keyword tag, the words/phrases should be kept to 10 or less.

Meta tags analysis.Title:Title relevancy to page content is terrible.
The Title relevancy to page content is 0%.
Description:Description relevancy to page content is terrible.
The Description relevancy to page content is 0%.
Keywords:Keyword relevancy to page content is terrible. However, this is not necessarily bad if you have a lot of content. The most important factor is to have your keywords on the page a few times.
The keywords relevancy to page content is 0%.
The issue here is you have no text.............there are workarounds for such pages that you should investigate. The Meta information for this page is not likely to be indexed properly for keyword or phrase queries. Google especially returns SERPs that are using relevant Titles and descriptions. Since you have no content on that page in the robots eyes, it can never be relevant. Search engines no longer allow you to use Meta information to tell them what search queries to index your pages for...they get this from your keyword density. But, no text, no density either.

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I didn't quite get it. Sorry.
My site did, surprisingly for me, came out well, but I'm by no means a profffesional web builder at all. So I really didn't understand much out of what you've said.
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Old 07-26-2007, 02:21 PM Re: META, how much do I need?
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The best way to learn about websites, search engines, new web technologies....keep in touch with forums n blogs.....it helps you to find out new things and make you update....

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Old 07-26-2007, 03:53 PM Re: META, how much do I need?
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I just finished the link-banner exchange page.
Worked about 1 week only on that, I saw example on other sites.
What does everybody think?
English: http://www.video-graphic.com/en/video-graphic-links.php
French: http://www.video-graphic.com/fr/video-graphic-links.php
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Old 07-28-2007, 07:13 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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Hi people.
What META do I need more if I already have
<meta name ="keywords" content=" .......
and
<meta name ="description" content=" ....... ??

Check the source code of:
http://www.video-graphic.com/

I have the same META tags on each page of my site in 3 different languages.
Is it enough or should I add something?
It's my first web experience, so I don't know much about it.....
Thanks.





In my opinion mete description is the most usefull at all. Just take there all the phrases that You want your site to be high in google and promote it adding site to the catlouges SEO friendly with good PR. Try to be patient...
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Old 07-29-2007, 07:33 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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In my opinion mete description is the most usefull at all. Just take there all the phrases that You want your site to be high in google and promote it adding site to the catlouges SEO friendly with good PR. Try to be patient...
But some say META is useless, obsolete.... ??
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Old 07-29-2007, 10:57 AM Re: META, how much do I need?
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But some say META is useless, obsolete.... ??
Some says, some people are stupid in this topics, it's my opinion. I work as a SEO manager and in optimalization I must use a lot of phrases on description when I want my site to be very high in Google.
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