[Chicago-talk] OT: meta tags

[Adam Israel]

The template you're using for the site (something from Network 
Solutions, it looks like) is using html frames to control the 
layout/organization of the site.  If you view the source of 
/pages/1/index.htm, you'll see:

<frameset rows="*,59" border="0" framespacing="0" cols="*" frameborder="NO">
  <frame src="page1.html?refresh=1116247601230" name="content" 
marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" noresize frameborder="NO">
  <frame src="footer.htm" name="footer" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" 
noresize frameborder="NO" scrolling="NO">
</frameset>

Frames are icky (tm).  They're not search engine friendly, either.  You 
can help the search bots index your pages by adding some content within 
the <noframes></noframes> tags but it's not the best solution.

-Adam

Richard Reina wrote:

>Adam,
>
>Thanks for the response.  I appreciate the
>suggestions.
>BTW what are frames?
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Richard
>--- Adam Israel <adam at battleaxe.net> wrote:
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>>heh, half of my living is made doing that sort of
>>thing right now.  The 
>>first thing would be to adjust your index.html. 
>>Meta redirects aren't 
>>the most reliable way of directing a search bot.
>>
>>Make sure that the keywords in your meta tags match
>>keywords in the 
>>content of your site (reinforces keyword density).
>>
>>Avoid the use of frames at all possible.  They make
>>it entirely more 
>>difficult to be indexed well.
>>
>>There are tons of other things, but those few should
>>give you a good 
>>start.  Like Pete said, you might not be picked up
>>in their schedule yet 
>>but even if you are, the site won't get far in its
>>current state.
>>
>>-Adam
>>
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>>Richard Reina wrote:
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>>>I know this is OT since it does not relate to perl,
>>>but I  built a small web site
>>>www.savechicagotaverns.com over the weekend and
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>>when I
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>>>google for text that is in the site the site does
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>>not
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>>>come up in the searches despite having introduced
>>>nearly all the text as meta tags.  Can anyone help?
>>>
>>>Richard
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