coi rodo Meta Tags are words that you include in your page (HTML source code). The search engines, once you submitt your page to them, go to your site and explore it. If you have meta tags then they include them in their databse, so that everytime someone puts one of those words, the site is likely to appear. So, the site must be submitted only AFTER you include the meta tags in the source code. Otherwise, when the search engine goes to your page, it won't generate any keyword! It must be said that the whole process of advertising is very tricky, since different search engines have different policies. You may submitt a site to different places and in some of them your site will appear in the firts ranks, while in others it will be at the bottom. One person asked if it would be better to submit the same site several times. That depends on the search engine. Some consider it as spam, while others don't. It's just so mysterious! But I suggest that each month someone should be designed to do this submision. It takes less than half an hour. This way we can constantly test the evolution of the rankings. If we see that, for instance, in Altavista Lojban is ranked in the first ten places (optimum) then we know that the keywords used in the last submission were the best. Conversely, if the site did not evolve, a change must be done. I can volunteer to do this for the first time, but of course we must first wait until we have the new site (it's of course useless to advertise the current one, since it is going to disapear soon). Also, the lojbanists that have personal lojban sites can submit their sites, too. This is how META TAGS work <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> title of your page </TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Description of the site (I think it's 200 charcaters maximum)"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Here you should put the 'keywords' (I think it's 1000 characters max."> </HEAD> <BODY> Here is a sample of what should be in the source HTML code of the site: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>The Logical Language Group Home Page</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Lojban is an artificial (human-created)logical language designed for...[etc. This should be as self-descriptive as possible: this is what people see in the search engine, and it should catch their attention!]"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="human created language, logical language, artificial language, constructed language, conlag, lojban, loglan, constructed human language, [etc. as much keywords as possible. A good thing would be to put these words also in the plural, like: constructed languages, created languages, etc]"> </HEAD> <BODY> Once the meta tags are done, it's time for submitting. The following is a link to the fastest Free URL submitter I know: http://www.fg-a.com/RegisterYourSite.htm This one has more search engines, but the submitting process is more time consuming: http://www.fg-a.com/RegisterYourSite.htm This is a place to optimize the site. It measures the compatibility among different browsers, speed, etc. It's useful, and it's free. http://www.websitegarage.com/ Please let me know what you think :) co'o
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