Include pages before Meta Tags

[bopritchard]

I can locate my site in most all of the search engine using my site title "Raleigh Christian Academy"...but absolutely NOTHING using any of my meta tag data...i went to one of those meta tag analyzers

http://www.submitexpress.com/

and it reported that i had NO meta tags at all...i do though...i do some file includes before my head section though...so when you actually view the source of the file, my meta tags are way down the page...is this a problem...would someone mind giving me some direction here...many thanks

my site

http://raleighchristian.com

 

[mThomas]

Is there a reason why you have coded your site the way you have? It certainly will not validate and there may be some browser issues.

I think technically a spider will crawl all readable code, though I would re-code you site so it is at least in the proper order.

mike

 

[bopritchard]

what kinds of things are you talking about?
i'm not arguing with you...i really want to know

 

[mThomas]

Well...I'm mainly referring to the structure of an HTML document. You first declare a document type (not absolutly necessary) and then you have the HTML tag, next the Head tag, and inside the Head you have the title, meta tags etc... After the head you have the body etc...

I checked you pages in Netscape 4x and Opera and they displayed just fine, so I wouldn't worry about any browser issues.

I would try moving your documents head section to the top of the document and then run your code through your meta checker and see if it reads them.

Keep in mind that most spider sites no longer use of all the meta tags. Almost all support the description tag and some support the keywords tag. Altavista, Fast, Teoma provide the most support.

One of the biggest issues you will have is that you index page has very little relavent text. You really need valid content to get your site ranked, well...you can go with paid inclusion programs, but if you are relying on spiders, then content is your best friend. A spider is not going to be able to read the text in your images.

I really like your site design! Very Nice!!

mike

 

[ChrisHirst]

Some problems may also be caused that the site appears to have been set up with search engine 'spamming' in mind!

'img' tags have the 'alt' attribute stuffed with keywords

the same keywords are used as hidden text <font color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot; size=&quot;-7&quot;>

There is every chance that these techniques regarded as spamming by the search engines are more likely to get your site banned than indexed. The best ways of getting listed as mike says is to have relavent text as content on the index page along with good (relevant) description & title tags and possibly more importantly get some links to your site on other sites.
There are other sites around that have a links page that lists local sites, Churches, Academies, Religious sites etc, find these and request inclusion on their page, usually most will only request a reciprocal link on your site.


Chris.


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