Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Position your site with the major search engines!

Jeff Leane (leane_at_emerge.com)
Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:37:49 -0700

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On 10/20/96, Tom Dahm asked:
>... The only real text on the home
>page was the tag line at the bottom: "The Huntsville Land Trust. All photos
>used by permission." Guess what appeared in all the search engines?
>
>Is there any way around this, short of redesigning the home page?

Yes. Use META tags like

<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Tom's non-profit page">

See http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=ah#meta
and http://guide.infoseek.com/AddUrl?pg=DCaddurl.html&sv=IS&lk=noframes

>Do spiders typically pick up comment lines?

No.

-- Regards, Jeff

P.S. You wouldn't be having these problems if you used Identify. :-)
(http://www.identify.com/webmasters.html)

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