need help with meta tags
am 04.05.2007 17:13:32 von Vic
I recently moved and changed my ISP. This resulted in having to redo
several web pages and uploading to my new ISP.
I have not had my new web pages picked up by Googles search engine,
even though I submitted them last January
My pages were always at the top of searches on the subject search (The
Nea Hellas, a greek steamship of the early 20th century)
I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a critique of the meta
tags I am using on the top of html source page copied below. Any
suggestions or comments on improving the meta tags would greatly be
apreciated.
The URL of the website page is http://home.comcast.net/~idreos/MemoriesNH.htm
Thanks for your help
Vic
Memories of the Greek Line's Nea Hellas 1939-1955
ALIGN="CENTER">Memories
of the
T.S.S.
FONT>Nea Hellas
ALIGN="CENTER">.To many millions of Greeks, the steamship Nea Hellas
was the ship of dreams. Many of those who were looking for a piece of
their family's distant past have been kind enough to email me their
memories of this ship. I thank them for sharing their recollections,
and thereby adding to her history. If you have any personal memories,
personal photographs or memorabilia from a voyage aboard the Nea
Hellas, Tuscania or the New York, please contact me through the email
link at the end of this web page and I will include them in future
updates.
WIDTH=570 HEIGHT=409>
This rare color photo is from 1956. She
was 34 years old, and had 5 years left. The long era of trans Atlantic
travel via steamship was coming to an end.
ALIGN="CENTER">NEW!
FONT>We are very
fortunate to have received a unique contribution from a German
immigrant who came to the United States a half century ago on the
T.S.S. New York. This generous gift is a video made from a film on a
crossing from Bremerhaven, West Germany to New York City in October of
1955.
Re: need help with meta tags
am 04.05.2007 17:37:34 von JH
> I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a critique of the meta
> tags I am using on the top of html source page copied below. Any
> suggestions or comments on improving the meta tags would greatly be
> apreciated.
>
> The URL of the website page is http://home.comcast.net/~idreos/MemoriesNH.htm
>
> Thanks for your help
> Vic
>
>
>
>
>
> Memories of the Greek Line's Nea Hellas 1939-1955
>
>
>
HTH.
Re: need help with meta tags
am 04.05.2007 19:54:04 von Ed Mullen
JH wrote:
>> I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a critique of the meta
>> tags I am using on the top of html source page copied below. Any
>> suggestions or comments on improving the meta tags would greatly be
>> apreciated.
>>
>> The URL of the website page is http://home.comcast.net/~idreos/MemoriesNH.htm
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>> Vic
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Memories of the Greek Line's Nea Hellas 1939-1955
>>
>>
>>
>
> HTH.
>
Also, meta tags are much less important to search engines these days:
Some simply ignore them. Two suggestions:
1. Try to have relevant text (such as contained in your meta tags)
appear in the actual text of the page(s)
2. Register with Google and use Google sitemaps and include a sitemap
file on your server
3. Getting other sites to include links to your page(s) can also boost
your ranking
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Re: need help with meta tags
am 04.05.2007 21:47:58 von a.nony.mous
vic wrote:
> I recently moved and changed my ISP. This resulted in having to redo
> several web pages and uploading to my new ISP. I have not had my new
> web pages picked up by Googles search engine, even though I submitted
> them last January
Perhaps Google is confused by the two missing images (NClass2.jpg and
foreaft.jpg), or perhaps Google can't read in your font choices of
"Lucida Handwriting", "Castellar", or "Book Antiqua", none of which
exist on my computer either. My browser attempts to substitute some
other script-type font for the Lucida, and it is really hard to read.
That said, search engines stopped reading meta keywords many years ago
due to abuse.
--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck
Re: need help with meta tags
am 05.05.2007 03:55:15 von Joel Shepherd
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
> vic wrote:
>
> > I recently moved and changed my ISP. This resulted in having to redo
> > several web pages and uploading to my new ISP. I have not had my new
> > web pages picked up by Googles search engine, even though I submitted
> > them last January
>
> Perhaps Google is confused by the two missing images (NClass2.jpg and
> foreaft.jpg), or perhaps Google can't read in your font choices of
> "Lucida Handwriting", "Castellar", or "Book Antiqua" ...
I must have missed something. Since when did Google (or any other search
engine for that matter) care about fonts specified in the document? Are
you saying the pigeons were confused?
Since "vic" moved his pages -- changed their URL -- a more likely
explanation for the problem is that all the sites that linked to his
pages in their old location still do, and _don't_ link to the pages in
the new location. Fewer links in usually means lower standings in search
results, at least on Google. "vic" could track those pages down (using
Google's "link:" syntax, contact the site owners and ask them to update
their links.
That's likely to be more effective than dorking about with font names,
doncha think?
--
Joel.
Re: need help with meta tags
am 05.05.2007 04:15:13 von a.nony.mous
Joel Shepherd wrote:
> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>> Perhaps Google is confused by the two missing images (NClass2.jpg and
>> foreaft.jpg), or perhaps Google can't read in your font choices of
>> "Lucida Handwriting", "Castellar", or "Book Antiqua" ...
>
> I must have missed something. Since when did Google (or any other
> search engine for that matter) care about fonts specified in the
> document? Are you saying the pigeons were confused?
I'm sorry, I'll have to remove my tongue from the cheek in order to
answer you. (Was just getting in a wee shot at the poor choice of
fontfaces, and missing images.) ;-)
> Since "vic" moved his pages -- changed their URL -- a more likely
> explanation for the problem is that all the sites that linked to his
> pages in their old location still do, and _don't_ link to the pages
> in the new location. Fewer links in usually means lower standings in
> search results, at least on Google. "vic" could track those pages
> down (using Google's "link:" syntax, contact the site owners and ask
> them to update their links.
>
> That's likely to be more effective than dorking about with font
> names, doncha think?
Oh, absolutely. Though it may not take long.
"Your search - link:home.comcast.net/~idreos/ - did not match any
documents."
--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck
Re: need help with meta tags
am 05.05.2007 09:20:01 von jb
On 4 May 2007 08:13:32 -0700, vic wrote:
>I recently moved and changed my ISP. This resulted in having to redo
>several web pages and uploading to my new ISP.
>I have not had my new web pages picked up by Googles search engine,
>even though I submitted them last January
>
>My pages were always at the top of searches on the subject search (The
>Nea Hellas, a greek steamship of the early 20th century)
>
>I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a critique of the meta
>tags I am using on the top of html source page copied below. Any
>suggestions or comments on improving the meta tags would greatly be
>apreciated.
>
>The URL of the website page is http://home.comcast.net/~idreos/MemoriesNH.htm
>
>Thanks for your help
>Vic
>
Remember to not only give the keywords, but also tell the search
engines to visit you again, to be able to fetch all the changes you
did to your page in the meantime, Alos the sub-pages should be
indexed:
I did this on my page and it helps
BR
Juerg
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Re: need help with meta tags
am 05.05.2007 10:50:13 von jkorpela
Scripsit JB:
> Remember to not only give the keywords, but also tell the search
> engines to visit you again,
That's pointless too.
>
They'll laugh at you. If indexing robots could be affected that easily, they
would become rather useless, when all competings authors would ask them to
visit every minute.
The only effect it _might_ reasonably have is that if an indexing robot, by
its own criteria, decided that the page is so important and has changing
content that it needs to be visited every week, it _might_ read the meta tag
and think "Oh well, a fortnight's interval shall it be then".
>
That's the default anyway, so you gain nothing.
> I did this on my page and it helps
No, you have no actual evidence of any effect. It's just wishful thinking,
which would be irrelevant, but now you are telling others to do same useless
things.
> Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
Always a useful bogosity indicator, as is writing anonymously.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/