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<HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your pages. This page will show you a couple of different META tags that you can use on your pages.
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Jane Doe">
Now that you put that tag in, you want to make your pages ready for the search engines. You'd have to specify a site description, and some keywords. Let's say your page's topic is movie reviews. Here's some sample tags you might use (with the parts you change in red): <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="This is a site to see reviews on all the latest movies.">
Let's say you update your page often. You'll want to insert some tags to tell the search engines to come back in a certain number of days and reindex your site. Here's the tags (no changing needed): <META NAME="revisit" CONTENT="15 days">
On the off chance that you have a "secret" page that you do not want picked up by the search engines, use this tag instead: <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">
This last tag, unlike the others, isn't for classification or informational purposes for search engines. Let's say you have a page, but moved it to another location. You'd want to redirect the user to this new page. Here's the tag: <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="5; URL=http://www.yourserver.com/~yourpage/newpage.html">
The parts in red you must change. The number 5 you saw was how long (in seconds) you want to pass by before the browser redirects the user to the new page. The URL that is in red must be changed to the URL of the page you want the user to be redirected to. Using Yahoo! GeoCities' PageBuilder, and can't figure out how to add the META tags? You're not alone. This is one of my frequently asked questions. There is a simple way for a few of the above mentioned tags without having to type in the entire tags. This will work for title, keywords and author only. First of all, you'll need to be logged into Yahoo! GeoCities. Once you are logged in, you'll need to open PageBuilder. On the title bar, click on "Format" and select "Page Properties...". 
The following box will come up: 
Under "title" you will simply type in the title of the page (i.e. "My Page".) Under keywords, you will just type in the keywords separated by commas (i.e.: "apples, tomatoes, peaches".) Under the "author", you're going to just type your name. Again, no full tags are needed for these three in PageBuilder. And if you use these three here, do NOT try to type the tags over again in the Advanced Page Properties box (which you will see below.) For all the other META tags listed above, use these instructions. On the title bar, click on "Format" and select "Advanced Page Properties...". 
The following box will come up: 
You'll need to put the META tags (see above this section for the HTML tags) in the section that says "Head Script". Note: you need the complete tags in these boxes. |
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