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How do I add meta tags to my site to make it more visible to search engines. Or is there something else I need to do?

www.pauloram.nl

Advice welcome...

The best best best thing you could do...on every exhibit/page you create add the title of the page into the text space with h2 tags. And, add your name/logo to everypage (via the Pre-Nav or template directly) with h1 tags.

That's really all you need to do...

Meta tags...which are mostly unused these days...aren't the first thing Google wants. You could search Google for further into about meta tags but if you are doing h1 and h2 tags you are doing very well already.

Note, go look at Kottke's site...does he have any meta tags?

;)

Thanks Vaska. I will look into this.

Hi,

Sorry, I don't really know much about coding etc.

Do you mind explaining the h1 tags a little more please?
What are they, where exactly do I add them and what do I write?

Thanks

"heading tags html"...just do a Google and you will find at least 6 billion tutorials.

;)

Hi,

I've read up about h1 tags, would you just be able to tell me which file I add the text to please?
Is it a index.php file?

Thanks

I think Vaska meant that you should add < h1> X < /h1> tags into every exhibition you have made. So when you are editing your exhibitions, place these codes into each text box.

A question.. How can I use headings if I don't really want my name on every page? Is there a way to make them invisible to a page view but readable for crawlers in the HTML source?

Thank you.

Hi,
I've read several threads about meta tags and the h1 tags and also did the google search on "heading tags html", but I still don't get it... sorry.

In which file do I have to add the h1 tags? And what does Vaska mean with: "on every exhibit/page you create add the title of the page into the text space with h2 tags. And, add your name/logo to everypage (via the Pre-Nav or template directly) with h1 tags." ?

If I add h2 tags in the textbox of my exhibition, it shows up on my site. That's probably not the way it should be.

Any hints what to do exactly are very much appreciated.

V.

my site so far

You're using an image in your pre-nav (your name/logo), so you can't really put an h1 tag there. Consider using text instead, then you can wrap it in a h1 tag. Not all your exhibits, have titles, but if they do, wrap those in h2 tags. Tags are like this: < h1>your name< /h1> (but minus the space after '

1. <h1>your name</h1>

Searching on Google about heading tags isn't of help? There is alot of info out there...and they are very simple to use (as richardn displays).

Thanks richrdn+Vaska,
please be kind with a newbie, I'm trying hard, but I guess I have a knot somewhere in my brain... I have 2 questions:

1. I still don't understand where to place the h1 and h2 tags. I guess for you it's totally easy but I have no idea how to "add the title of the page into the text space with h2 tags on every exhibit".
If there is anyone who can give me a hint, I would appreciate it very much.

2. If I do a google search on my name, my website is only at 5th position. Can I do something to have it on the first? And furthermore it shows up with this:
http://www.verenapostweiler.de/indexhibitv070e/index.php?/contact/
allthough I cleaned my urls and it should show up like this:
http://www.verenapostweiler.de

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

V.

h1 tags would typically wrap your logo/name via the template or even the Pre-Nav space.

h2 tags would be manually inserted onto each page as a title...like:

1. <h2>Title of my page</h2>

Your ranking on Google is a different issue - to be honest - it might not be possible to get the number one ranking. Starting with these two things though and waiting for Google to begin indexing is the first step.

;)

ok, I think I got it. - Thanks for your help!
V.

Hi,

Whith h1 tags in the pre-nav text, the font and size of my name completely changes. I'd like to keep the current style though. How can I do that with what's now in the pre-nav text:

?

By the way it's just the template style I want..

Thanks!

1. <%obj_name%>

is what I mean

and your site is ?

deboritha dot com

just the basic template...

change your theme from eatock to sample (in settings) and modify the h1 tag in your style.css

thanks...

Hi to all !! :)
anybodo know why the h tags of my Webpage dont show the lighter font like a menu ???
I try to customize in the .css the tag h1 with which I set the text after the menu (pre-nav)
' CHRISTIAN D'ELIA
ARCHITECT '
but look's different, the gill sans font is regular....
i hope if is possible to have the same font style.

bye

Hi there

could anyone advice. the page only displays in google on some 7 google page or so...
what else i could do? i was reding the lemathieu answer to deboritha, but i dont understand if this can really help me since i have another theme. i also dont know what does it mean exsactly : "and modify the h1 tag in your style.css" did you mean here: }

body {
    font-size: 10px;
    font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
    background: #fff;
}

sorry when it writes Title i wanted to say

that I was using this

ah...cant do it sorry

Hi Luiza, I can find your site on google but you should add some meta informations to your site. Google needs some Informations.
google for "meta tag generator" and fill in some Informations about your site.
Then paste the generated code into ndxz-studio/site/sample/index.php

Good luck :)

Edited by Vaska: no spam

Edited by Vaska: no spam

Dear G470 A, i was not able to check the forum for the alst couple of days, but thank you for your advice! i will try this as soon as i have a moment.
could you please explain :
google for "meta tag generator" and fill in some Informations about your site.
"Some Information"? "Fill in"? Where?
Then paste the generated code into ndxz-studio/site/sample/index.php
Can I paste this anyhwrw in the ndxz-studio/site/sample/index.php or somewhere specific?
sorry for bugging,
and thank you so much!
Luiza

Hi luizamargan, try this link http://www.metaner.de/metagen/metagenerator.html
I think it´s self explaining. Fill out everything and press "meta tags erstellen".
Then you will get the generated html code with a expantion where to paste it in your template ;)

hi G470, thank you for the link. i ve got my meta tags, but i am not sure where exactly to implement them . it tells me to: open my Webseite in a Texteditor.
....

then to put my metatags in and then to save that document and to put it back on my web server...

I am not programing, so i m quite bad to comprehend this, iwould use some help with how to do this. how do i open MY site in the text editor, how do i "save" it back to my web srever once i am done?

Thank you much!
l