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Web Source Web Design Tips - Don't Forget Your META tags

When designing a website, make sure you include proper META
tags in the HTML of each page. META tags are HTML code that
enable the search engines to determine what keywords are
relevant to a specific site.

About 80 percent of all web site traffic originates from
the eight major search engines. It would be a good idea to
make sure you've done your homework and fully understand how
to optimize your web pages prior to designing your website.
This will save you a lot of headaches in the long run.

Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com/

AltaVista - http://www.altavista.com/av/content/addurl.htm/

Hotbot - http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.asp/

Lycos - http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html/

Excite - http://www.excite.com/info/add_url/

InfoSeek - http://infoseek.go.com/AddUrl?pg=SubmitUrl.html/

WebCrawler - http://www.webcrawler.com/info/add_url/

NorthernLight - http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html/

For further information on META tags read the tutorial
entitled, "Building Your Site."

- http://www.web-source.net/building.htm



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Shelley Lowery
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