metatags not recognised by search engine

[popyaskin]

Hi,

my website is http://www.nanostudios.com, I added some metatags into my heading of html so that the searchengine would recognise my site. I waited already for two weeks and still google and yahoo doesnt recognise my site. How come?

[Freeman]

Meta tags don't work for most search engines. People abused the tags to much using them for advertising things they don't actually have on their site so they would get more hits. If you want to know about how to possibly include words for search engines search for it, there was a conversation not to long ago. JF

[djr33]

Exactly. That's the old way to do it. The new search engines read your page, don't just check for meta tags.

[mwinter]

my website is http://www.nanostudios.com, I added some metatags into my heading of html so that the searchengine would recognise my site. I waited already for two weeks and still google and yahoo doesnt recognise my site. How come?

If by 'recognise' you mean 'index', Google certainly does already. However, as there's no real content to index, you'll have difficulty getting your site in results without using very specific search terms.

As others have mentioned, meta elements are generally pointless for search engines. Google ignores them, Yahoo! might (I can't remember), and I'd be surprised if any other established services take them seriously (though I can't guarantee that). A site should be indexed and ranked on its content, not how many keywords can be stuffed into an attribute. Semantic markup also helps: the content of headings, for example, get weighted above body text.

Mike

[jscheuer1]

If the search terms are relevant to the site content and to the meta tag data, Google will often present portions of the meta tag data on the search results page instead of a snippet of live content. Other than that, there isn't much value to the meta tag with Google.

[BLiZZaRD]

The only pro to the meta tag that I have utilized is the INDEX= NO FOLLOW

Due to the nature of my site I don't want each page listed on the search results.

I check as many search engines as I can about once a week and haven't seen any pages except my forums and my index page listed, so that much works for me.

~BLiZZ

[Twey]

Try a robots.txt file instead.

[BLiZZaRD]

Try a robots.txt file instead.

I have one of those as well... but mine only blocks the known bad ones. It has grown to a large pain in the ass though, as I have to add more and more seemingly daily.. LOL

If I could block ALL bots I would be fine with that, but unfortunatley AOL and some MSN and Yahoo based ISPs show up as bots... frustrating.

~BLiZZ

[Twey]

I suggest you have a look at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html.

[BLiZZaRD]

Thanks Twey, I will read that soon as I get home today!


~BLiZZ