Re: metatags

Jon Spivey

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Dec 30, 2005, 10:46:02 AM12/30/05

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Hi,
You should have a seperate description for each page, don't just try and
stick all your products in one tag on the home page. So you might have
something like this
Home page
<meta name="description" content="We offer a full range of widgets at
unbeatable prices">
Product Pages
<meta name="description" content="Our blue widget offers market leading
performance at a very competitive price">
<meta name="description" content="Our red widget offers unrivalled
performance at a low price">
etc
If your site is too big to do all these manually it may be time to consider
some form of database solution

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>I know how to do metatags but this site keeps telling me to add them to the
> home page. Does that mean it does not do any good to add metatags to the
> rest
> of the pages. My site is too large too add them to the home page only as
> there is not enough room for all the product names.

Murray

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Dec 30, 2005, 10:52:10 AM12/30/05

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And the unspoken part - don't worry about the meta keywords. They may help
*you*, but they do nothing for the Search Engines. 8)

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artoshea

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Dear Jon Spivey,

I am a newby to meta tags and descriptions. I have searched out good key
words and am ready to do what it take next, could you direct me to help on
the subject?

Thank you,
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Murray

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Jan 14, 2006, 1:18:11 PM1/14/06

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Forget keywords as they are not used by search engines (nor should they be,
since you can say anything you want to in them).

Just put a good page-specific description on each page and make sure that
the contents of each page state clearly what that page is about, and you'll
be on your way....

(how was my Spivey imitation?)

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Tom [Pepper] Willett

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Jan 14, 2006, 1:24:24 PM1/14/06

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Here are just few of the hundreds of meta tag tutorials available when you
Google:

http://www.echoecho.com/htmlmetatags.htm
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167931
http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html
http://yourhtmlsource.com/promotion/metatags.html
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

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artoshea

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Jan 14, 2006, 2:23:02 PM1/14/06

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Dear Jon,

Thank you for your input. I found you exact comment before I got your
response and already saved it in Word. I am following the threads now and
have learned how to search here.

Thank you,
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artoshea

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Jan 14, 2006, 2:26:02 PM1/14/06

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Dear Murray,

Thank you. Your imitation of Spivey was great. Thanks for the good
avdvice.

Sincerely,
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artoshea

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Jan 14, 2006, 2:29:02 PM1/14/06

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Dear Tom Pepper,

Thank you very much. It will take me some time but now I know I am on
the right track, thank all of you very much.

Thank You
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artoshea

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Jan 28, 2006, 6:18:28 PM1/28/06

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Dear John Spivey,

Since I found this community a couple of weeks ago I have been studying
tutorials and have cut, copied & pasted the required tags into HTML right
after other tags and before the <body> and the HTML shows in the page view.

Another strange thing is that the </head> is at the bottom of the HTML
page view instead of after meta tags and before <body>. Should I move
</head> up to the end of the meta tags? I also read that all meta tags should
be in lowercase is this true?

I just found out what "value" means and that should help some.

Any suggestions?

Thank You,

Art O’Shea

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Tina Clarke

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Jan 28, 2006, 8:15:47 PM1/28/06

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"artoshea" <arto...@comcast.net (donotspam)> wrote in message

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> Dear John Spivey,
>
> Since I found this community a couple of weeks ago I have been studying
> tutorials and have cut, copied & pasted the required tags into HTML right
> after other tags and before the <body> and the HTML shows in the page
view.
>
> Another strange thing is that the </head> is at the bottom of the HTML
> page view instead of after meta tags and before <body>. Should I move
> </head> up to the end of the meta tags? I also read that all meta tags
should
> be in lowercase is this true?
>
> I just found out what "value" means and that should help some.
>
> Any suggestions?

Yes move it ... can you give us an url to look at? If not paste the code to
email

Tina

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artoshea

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Jan 29, 2006, 11:05:26 AM1/29/06

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Dear John Spivey,

Since I found this community a couple of weeks ago I have been studying
tutorials and have cut, copied & pasted the required tags into HTML right
after other tags and before the <body> and the HTML shows in the page view.

Another strange thing is that the </head> is at the bottom of the HTML
page view instead of after meta tags and before <body>. Should I move
</head> up to the end of the meta tags? I also read that all meta tags should
be in lowercase is this true?

I just found out what "value" means and that should help some.

Any suggestions?

Thank You,

Art O’Shea

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Tom [Pepper] Willett

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Jan 29, 2006, 11:25:49 AM1/29/06

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Inline:

"> Since I found this community a couple of weeks ago I have been studying
> tutorials and have cut, copied & pasted the required tags into HTML right
> after other tags and before the <body> and the HTML shows in the page
> view.

This indicates you have cut or copied all of the information correctly, and
it's missing some tags.

> Another strange thing is that the </head> is at the bottom of the HTML
> page view instead of after meta tags and before <body>. Should I move
> </head> up to the end of the meta tags?

The </head> must be prior to the body tag. This *might* also be the reason
your meta tags are showing in html view.

Murray

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Jan 29, 2006, 11:37:13 AM1/29/06

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Please respond to the replies you have already gotten rather than just
posting the same message over and over.

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artoshea

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Jan 29, 2006, 12:56:27 PM1/29/06

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Dear Tom (Pepper) Willett,

Thank you for your input. I am getting excited about doing this right
and want to expiriment with it until I get it right.

One more question; how do I code hyperlinks that our site goes to? I
know I will have to do this on a page by page process. Could you direct me
to some code for that?

May God richly bless and keep you and yours.

Sincerely,

Art O'Shea
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artoshea

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Jan 29, 2006, 1:02:27 PM1/29/06

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Dear Murray,

I'm sorry about that, I replied to my own post, then realized it and
posted it to someone else. Truly am sorry about my mistake, I'm still a
newby and have a lot to learn.
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Tom [Pepper] Willett

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Jan 29, 2006, 4:03:13 PM1/29/06

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Sorry, Art, but I don't understand what you are asking.

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artoshea

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Jan 30, 2006, 12:30:27 PM1/30/06

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Dear Tom,

Thank you very much, I hope I am posting this correctly. It is wonderful
to find a group that really helps.

By the way, do you know of any chat room, forum or community where
webmasters help each other with their sites?

Thank you,

Art O'Shea
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Murray

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Jan 30, 2006, 12:34:50 PM1/30/06

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nntp://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.frontpage.client is a good one.

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artoshea

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Jan 30, 2006, 1:30:28 PM1/30/06

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Dear Tina,

I just found your reply this morning and I thank you for your help and
input. The site is up but not ready for search engins until I finish with
the code.

Do you know how to insert links that our site point to in a meta tag?

The URL is http://www.stonesoupcorp.com

Thank you and may God richly bless and keep you and yours.

Sincerely,

Art O'Shea
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artoshea

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Dear Tom (Pepper) Willett,

The question you didn't understand I think I've found the answer in a
tutorial (i sure have been reading them over and over again) it is -- <a
href="http://www.website.com">A link<a>

I hope I am not mistaken in using these links to other sites referred to
on my pages.

Thank you for all your help.

Sincerely,
Art O'Shea
Art O''''Shea

artoshea

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Feb 1, 2006, 2:19:28 PM2/1/06

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Dear Murray,

I tried copying that into my browser and it could not comply, it took me
nowhere, then i tried using http but that failed to go anywhere also.

Is this link for a secured membership where there is a link you must go
to first to sign up then use the
nntp://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.frontpage.client ?

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Art O'Shea
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Murray

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Feb 1, 2006, 2:37:09 PM2/1/06

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Yes - that's because it's not a website. Had you clicked on the link
instead it might have started OutlookExpress and taken you to this forum.

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artoshea

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Dear Murray,

Thanks again. I have written my first page of code and everything works
but
<a href="http://www.outfront.net">A link<a> perhaps I am not using it for
the right thing, what I am trying to do is to show the hyperlinks that take
people from our site to other related sites.

Thank you again.

Murray

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Feb 1, 2006, 5:02:55 PM2/1/06

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Art:

<a href="http://www.outfront.net">A link</a>
------------------------------------------------------^^^

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Tom J

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Feb 1, 2006, 5:23:37 PM2/1/06

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> <a href="http://www.outfront.net">A link</a>

Shouldn't that be:

Tom J

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artoshea

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Dear Tom,

I see my mistake now there is an additonal space before the A. Maybe now
it will stop putting code on the top of my page.

Thank you

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Murray

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Feb 1, 2006, 6:53:00 PM2/1/06

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Doesn't matter at all. Don't pay any attention to the underline - look at
the code. It's correct. Art's was not.

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artoshea

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Dear Tom J,

Thank you I will give that at try.

Thank You Very Much
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artoshea

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Dear Murray,

I don't know what the problem is but my site has crashed twice in two
weeks and it took a day each time to rebuild them. All the meta tags were
lost and I have to redo them.

My question, is there a way to cut, copy & paste code without getting a
lot of added script. I have tried notepad, word, and straight copy in FP to
the next page.

Am I being lazy here? Or just inexperienced? If I have to do it page by
page I will make sure this time to save it to my backup CD, instead of
trusting my host.

Thank You,

Murray

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> I don't know what the problem is but my site has crashed twice in two
> weeks and it took a day each time to rebuild them. All the meta tags were
> lost and I have to redo them.

I can see no correspondence between sites crashing and loss of meta tags.

> My question, is there a way to cut, copy & paste code without getting a
> lot of added script. I have tried notepad, word, and straight copy in FP
> to
> the next page.

Well sure - copy what you want and paste it in. But I'm confident I don't
understand what you are asking here.

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artoshea

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Feb 6, 2006, 6:32:27 PM2/6/06

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Dear Murray,

I called my host about the problem of dissapearing navigation and banners.
After we talked he assured me it was a quirk in FP. He was right and I
found a way around it by going to my backup CD, opening the page then going
to the site and edit in FP, select all, delete, then paste in my backup.

As to cut, copying and pasting meta tags a lot of extra stuff shows up
when I do this. I have spent a lot of time hand inputing meta tags for each
page as my worry is that with all the extra code added after a paste that it
will make my pages load slower. For instance instead of just (") it writes
quote something adds a lot of spaces and <p>'s, the font and a lot more stuff.

It sure would be easier if I didn't have to worry about that.

Thank you for your help in advance.

Thank You,

Murray

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First of all, I am losing confidence in your host. Not only has he/she said
exactly what I thought he/she would say (it's not me - it's them), but also,
I think there is no such problem with FP.

Secondly, it would be ever so much easier for me to visualize what you are
describing if you showed me a before and after your copy and paste.

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artoshea

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Feb 7, 2006, 1:51:28 PM2/7/06

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Dear Murray,

Sorry for my slow response. I agree with you that my host is goofing me
up and could you suggest a host that truly serves Front Page? My host, Rick,
tells me that Front Page isn't used by anyone anymore and suggested
Dreamweaver. He also said that only one in a hundred customers on his server
uses FP and I'm it.

Second answer concerning cut, copy and paste. Here is what I mean:

Pastes as:
<p class=MsoNormal><meta http-equiv="PICS-Label"
content='(PICS-1.1</p>

<p class=MsoNormal>"http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWP1.0/" l gen true
comment "VWP1.0" by "arto...@comcast.net" </p>

<p class=MsoNormal>on "2006.02.06T10:14-0800" for
"http://www.stonesoupcorp.com"</p>

Should I let this concern me? Will it slow down page loading? Or, am I
making it too hard on myself and should just let HTML code work itself out?

Thanks for all your help Murray.

Sincerely,

Murray

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Feb 7, 2006, 2:03:40 PM2/7/06

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This is obviously a host that has no interest in serving you (pun intended).
I suggest you start a new thread asking for recommendations on FP hosts.

As for your copy and paste, my head is swimming. You have just witnessed a
miracle.

But first, explain your markup to me, please. Where is this code located in
your page, and why is there a </pre> tag following the <meta>?

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Windsun

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www.Lunarpages.com for one.

And your host is full of it. With such crappy support I am surprised he has
any users, much less any that use FP.

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artoshea

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Dear Murray,

All of that code was generated after submitting to Vancouver-webpages that
ranks your site for Canadian content. One of the patents we feature on the
site is by a Canadian, so we thought we'd get their stamp of approval.

I have found if I cut, copy and paste from a tutorial that it shows up
with a whole bunch of unnecessary font inforamtion and more. But, if I put
it in by hand then cut, copy and paste in the same website but a different
page this does not happen.

As to the <PRE></PRE> that may be a Canadian thing, we are aiming to get
the greatest audience that we can.

Murry, how do I start a new thread? I've tried it before with no success.

Thank you very much for all your help.
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Ronx

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Feb 8, 2006, 5:09:37 AM2/8/06

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Paste the code into Notepad - not Word, or WordPad (judging by the <p
class=MsoNormal> it looks as if Word, or possibly Publisher, was used
somewhere.)

In notepad, make sure that the entire meta tag is on one line (use
Format->Word-wrap if that helps).
Delete the </PRE> tag - this is something extra you picked up, and
should not be there.

Open your website in FrontPage, then open the page. Change to Code or
HTML view and locate the <head> section at the top of the page.
Then copy and paste from Notepad directly into the <head> section of
the page.
There should not be any extraneous code copied with it.
If you are asked how to paste - choose "as HTML"
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artoshea

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Dear Ronx,

Thank you for your input. I tried Notepad, it too added the extra; font,
color and other HTML code.

There are two more things that I will try, I will copy code directly from
the HTML in FP to Word and choose Blank Web Page option.

What I have done now is as I am rebuilding my super crashed site I input
by hand on the home page then just cut, copy & paste into the second page and
edit; <Title>, <meta name=" <h1>Description</h1> and keywords.

This is good because I've been re-writing as I go using better ranked
keywords from the Keyword Selector Tool;
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

I will change my host to lunarpages and try "save as" in FP directly itto
a New Folder in CD-RW. If this fails I will try again using the Blank Web
Page in Word.

Thank you very much for your help. I'd like to thank all of the
community that has help me and been patient with me, it is turning out much
better than originally expected.

Thank You,

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Murray

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Feb 8, 2006, 12:26:44 PM2/8/06

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Honestly, I think we are witnessing a miracle. I dropped out because I
couldn't imagine where the extra markup is coming from. If you select "A"
and copy it to the clipboard, it is only possible that the clipboard would
contain "A" not "B". Or what am I missing?

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Ronx

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Using notepad normally gets rid of all extraneous formatting - it
definitely does for me, unless what you are pasting *includes* all
this code.

When you create a page, DO NOT USE WORD. I cannot emphasise that
enough.
Word is for printed documents. FrontPage is for web pages.
Word will produce bloated code, an example of which is all that
MsoNormal malarkey.

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artoshea

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Feb 8, 2006, 2:11:29 PM2/8/06

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Dear Murray,

Thank you for your input, but if it is a miracle iti is a minor one. For
some reason I can't totally explain, being an intemediate user I've found if
I open and copy Souce in IE the meta tags are fine. But, if I copy code from
a tutorial into Notepad or straight from the tutorial it adds all the HTML of
the original documents created in either Word or some other program where
they have selected a font, color in the original it "interprets and
translates" all their background choices.

Thank you again for all your help. I've put in 4, twelve hour days and
today is my medication time for my nerve disorder which I was stricken with
using a new product from Parker Paints it caused severe neurological and
nerve damage. The have me on a controlled substance and to avoid addiction I
can only take it once every three days to stop the shakes that get so bad
that I end up using the backspace key a lot and my wpm goes down.

After the "nap" I'm good to go for about two and a half days. Today is a
day beyond nap day so yesterday's 12 hours of work input produced only about
six hours of true work being done.

Youze guys and gals are a real inspiration to me. Thank you again and
may God richly bless and keep all of you and yours eternally.

artoshea

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Dear Ronx,

Thanks for the heads up on Word. I want clear uncluttered code. Do you
know if I will get this saving to a CR-RW?

Thank you again.

Ronx

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Feb 9, 2006, 5:17:59 AM2/9/06

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If you mean CD-RW, where you save or backup to will not make any
difference to the code.

From your reply to Murray, I will make the assumption that you are
copying the meta tag from Code view (or view source) of a tutorial
page. Try copying from the web page itself, then paste into notepad
as described before.

The tag itself is a PICS label, which merely designates your page as
being suitable for range of users. ICRA is a body that also produces
PICS labels, and makes it easy to produce the labels for your site,
but in a different way.

See www.icra.org

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Dear Ronx,

Thank you again I am currently waiting for a response from ICRA, I
applied a few days ago. As for the </PRE> in the vancouver-webpages rating,
that was in the original generated code from them.

I hope that all of this gets sorted out by; MS Submit it @
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/online/search-engine-optimization/submit-it/faq.mspx

It may cost me a bit but it will be worth it to know that the site is
optimized and submitted correctly.

Thank you again,

Tina Clarke

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Feb 9, 2006, 12:36:57 PM2/9/06

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> Thank you again I am currently waiting for a response from ICRA, I
> applied a few days ago. As for the </PRE> in the vancouver-webpages
rating,
> that was in the original generated code from them.
>
> I hope that all of this gets sorted out by; MS Submit it @
>
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/online/search-engine-optimization/submit-it/faq.mspx
>
> It may cost me a bit but it will be worth it to know that the site is
> optimized and submitted correctly.
>
> Thank you again,
> --
> Art O''''Shea

I'm afraid at present that would be a no ...

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stonesoupcorp.com

optimised how? SEO, Accessbility, usibility, validation ... ???

You need a doctype for a start

that's wrong it should be name not mame

You have links which include & .... either use a redirect and use that or if
it will work with it .. use &amp;

You have missing tags

the height and width should go into a external CSS sheet

a lot of the others are to do with the fp hovers which you should not use
anyway...but can be fixed

HOWEVER..... your whole top section of the html is just wrong.... your head
tag is not in the correct place you have so much unessary stuff in there and
things are in the wrong places.... I've tweaked it for you and took all the
formatting out and put it in a embedded style sheet which you can take out
and put into an external one .. I gave you a background as well.

I would throw out those hover buttons I would have redone that in css but it
was a bit too much time to take.. at least put in some text links in the
footer if you muse this useless things ... use an include page .. and put
the css into an external sheet and apply it ... of course you would need to
redo all your pages if they are all like this one in the header.

I also fixed your pics label ...

copy the below ... paste to notepad.... reselect and copy and paste into a
blank page in the html (make sure you remove any html in there first) ....

name and save the page ...

I added an alt attribute to the picture you will need to change the text of
it to what you want...

hth Tina

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>The Stone Soup Corporation. Something good for everyone.</title>
<meta name="description" content="Mysteries of the Ark, over unity,
alternative energy, mystery">
<meta name="keywords" content="Christianity, energy, invention, engineering,
corporation, mystery, environmental Canada, whats happening, mystical,
alternative energy, mystical, controversial issue">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">
<meta name="rating" content="General">
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright © 1990 - 2006, Tina Clarke All
Rights Reserved">

Com 3 Tol -2 Env -3 SF -2 Edu -3 Can -1 MC -3 Gam -1 ))'>

</head>
<body>

function SymError()
{
return true;
}

window.onerror = SymError;

//-->
</script>

</body>
</html>

artoshea

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Feb 9, 2006, 7:08:31 PM2/9/06

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Dear Ronx,

I am still struggiling with ICRA, I have the download but am having
trouble where to put it so that I can open it. It didn't work on the desktop.

Thanks again Ronx.

artoshea

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Feb 9, 2006, 7:25:18 PM2/9/06

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Dear Tina,

God bless you and thank you for all the work you have done for us, if you
would like we will send a free copy of the book to you. Even though it is
only 243 pages with ten plates it it too big for Outlook which breaks it up
into three files to send.

We use "SendThisFile.com". You are entitled to a free book.

Now, do I use this for my index.htm page then edit the title, description
and keywords for individual pages?

Thank you for all your work and care.

--
Art O''''Shea

"Tina Clarke" wrote:

> > Thank you again I am currently waiting for a response from ICRA, I
> > applied a few days ago. As for the </PRE> in the vancouver-webpages
> rating,
> > that was in the original generated code from them.
> >
> > I hope that all of this gets sorted out by; MS Submit it @
> >
> http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/online/search-engine-optimization/submit-it/faq.mspx
> >
> > It may cost me a bit but it will be worth it to know that the site is
> > optimized and submitted correctly.
> >
> > Thank you again,
> > --
> > Art O''''Shea
>
> I'm afraid at present that would be a no ...
>
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stonesoupcorp.com
>
> optimised how? SEO, Accessbility, usibility, validation ... ???
>
> You need a doctype for a start
>
> that's wrong it should be name not mame
>
> <meta mame="robots" content="All, Index, Follow">
>
> You have links which include & .... either use a redirect and use that or if
> it will work with it .. use &
>

> <td> <img alt="The Stone Soup

> Corporation" src="index.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_bnr.gif" border="0"

> width="600" height="60"><p> </td>

> ..gif");

> MSFPnav7h=MSFPpreload("_derived/serv01.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn
> _a.gif"); }
> // --></script>
> <a language="JavaScript" onmouseover="if(MSFPhover)
> document['MSFPnav7'].src=MSFPnav7h.src" onmouseout="if(MSFPhover)
> document['MSFPnav7'].src=MSFPnav7n.src"
> href="http://www.stonesoupcorp.com/serv01.htm"><img alt="Service 1"
> src="serv01.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn.gif" border="0"
> name="MSFPnav7" width="140" height="40"></a><br>
> <script language="JavaScript"><!--
> if(MSFPhover) {
> MSFPnav8n=MSFPpreload("_derived/serv02.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn

> ..gif");

> MSFPnav8h=MSFPpreload("_derived/serv02.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn
> _a.gif"); }
> // --></script>
> <a language="JavaScript" onmouseover="if(MSFPhover)
> document['MSFPnav8'].src=MSFPnav8h.src" onmouseout="if(MSFPhover)
> document['MSFPnav8'].src=MSFPnav8n.src"
> href="http://www.stonesoupcorp.com/serv02.htm"><img alt="Service 2"
> src="serv02.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn.gif" border="0"
> name="MSFPnav8" width="140" height="40"></a><br>
> <script language="JavaScript"><!--
> if(MSFPhover) {
> MSFPnav9n=MSFPpreload("_derived/serv03.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn

> ..gif");

artoshea

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Feb 9, 2006, 7:52:26 PM2/9/06

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Dear Tina,

I just tried that and I have no banner or navigation bars, the text is
not justified and the wrong color. But I have looked at the code and see
where I am missing some things.

I should be done rebuilding the site in a few days, right now I am still
trying to get ICRA working for me and am checking the spelling of all titles,
descriptions and keywords.

It actually may take a more than a couple days as I change hosts to
lunarpages.

Thank you for your help and you are still entitled to the uncensored copy
of the book. As soon as I am done working out the code and going to Google
AdSense and including it, I will have time to update and re-write and update
the book completely.

Thank you again.
--
Art O''''Shea

"Tina Clarke" wrote:

> > Thank you again I am currently waiting for a response from ICRA, I
> > applied a few days ago. As for the </PRE> in the vancouver-webpages
> rating,
> > that was in the original generated code from them.
> >
> > I hope that all of this gets sorted out by; MS Submit it @
> >
> http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/online/search-engine-optimization/submit-it/faq.mspx
> >
> > It may cost me a bit but it will be worth it to know that the site is
> > optimized and submitted correctly.
> >
> > Thank you again,
> > --
> > Art O''''Shea
>
> I'm afraid at present that would be a no ...
>
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stonesoupcorp.com
>
> optimised how? SEO, Accessbility, usibility, validation ... ???
>
> You need a doctype for a start
>
> that's wrong it should be name not mame
>
> <meta mame="robots" content="All, Index, Follow">
>
> You have links which include & .... either use a redirect and use that or if
> it will work with it .. use &
>

> <td> <img alt="The Stone Soup

> Corporation" src="index.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_bnr.gif" border="0"

> width="600" height="60"><p> </td>

> ..gif");

> MSFPnav7h=MSFPpreload("_derived/serv01.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn
> _a.gif"); }
> // --></script>
> <a language="JavaScript" onmouseover="if(MSFPhover)
> document['MSFPnav7'].src=MSFPnav7h.src" onmouseout="if(MSFPhover)
> document['MSFPnav7'].src=MSFPnav7n.src"
> href="http://www.stonesoupcorp.com/serv01.htm"><img alt="Service 1"
> src="serv01.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn.gif" border="0"
> name="MSFPnav7" width="140" height="40"></a><br>
> <script language="JavaScript"><!--
> if(MSFPhover) {
> MSFPnav8n=MSFPpreload("_derived/serv02.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn

> ..gif");

> MSFPnav8h=MSFPpreload("_derived/serv02.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn
> _a.gif"); }
> // --></script>
> <a language="JavaScript" onmouseover="if(MSFPhover)
> document['MSFPnav8'].src=MSFPnav8h.src" onmouseout="if(MSFPhover)
> document['MSFPnav8'].src=MSFPnav8n.src"
> href="http://www.stonesoupcorp.com/serv02.htm"><img alt="Service 2"
> src="serv02.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn.gif" border="0"
> name="MSFPnav8" width="140" height="40"></a><br>
> <script language="JavaScript"><!--
> if(MSFPhover) {
> MSFPnav9n=MSFPpreload("_derived/serv03.htm_cmp_copy-of-network-blitz110_vbtn

> ..gif");

Ronx

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Feb 10, 2006, 10:55:38 AM2/10/06

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There is no need to open the file from ICRA.
Full instructions are in the email:

First, save the file to your desktop.
If you are hosted on a Unix server, the file will be named labels.rdf,
if on a windows server it will be labels.xml
Open your website in FrontPage, and File->Import the file. It should
be placed in your root folder - the same folder as the home page.

In the email from ICRA is a tag similar to
<link rel="meta" href="http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/labels.xml"
type="application/rdf+xml" title="ICRA labels" />
Highlight this in the email, and copy it (ctrl-C)
Open a page in your web, switch to code view, and anywhere between the
<head> and </head> tags, paste (ctrl-V) the tag in.
Repeat the paste for each page.

If there are a large number of pages then use Find and Replace to add
the tag to every page:

Find: </head>

Replace
<link rel="meta" href="http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/labels.xml"
type="application/rdf+xml" title="ICRA labels" />
</head>

Very simple.

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artoshea

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Feb 10, 2006, 12:00:20 PM2/10/06

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Dear Ronx,

Thank you for the order in which to place the ICRA. I have the dowload
in my Download Folder and have tried to place it on the desktop opened but it
does not work.

Should I just move it from the folder, put it on the desktop then enter
it in index.htm folder and open it there?

Ronx

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Feb 10, 2006, 2:09:24 PM2/10/06

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What have you downloaded? What do you mean "does not work"?

When you fill in the form for an ICRA label, ICRA sends an email, with
an XML or RDF file attached.
The file goes into the root folder of your website, that is the folder
where your Home page is.
Then follow the instructions in the email to insert the <link rel....>
tags in your pages.
There is nothing to open, and nothing to "work".

If you have a folder named index.htm, then rename it. Folders should
not have dots in their names.

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> Dear Tina,
>
> I just tried that and I have no banner or navigation bars, the text is
> not justified and the wrong color. But I have looked at the code and see
> where I am missing some things.

Just apply to the page your testing... if you have a theme, shared borders
nav bot and banner going on ... I probably deleted that bit of code out of
the head tags... enabling them again will put em back in ....

I did mention I removed all the formatting ... though I applied embedded
styles for the background, font type, colour and size, I was hoping it might
be an incentive to learn a little css, but at least get rid of some of the
formatting for you... you could just take everything from <body> upwards ...
on an existing page delete it and insert what I've given you (notepad first
remember) ... you will keep your formatting from before then.

But use this oppourtunity to look at the page I've given you and your
homepage as was... compare them .. see how you have stuff in the wrong
places above the body tag?

> Thank you for your help and you are still entitled to the uncensored
copy
> of the book. As soon as I am done working out the code and going to
Google
> AdSense and including it, I will have time to update and re-write and
update
> the book completely.
>
> Thank you again.
> --
> Art O''''Shea

No thanks, but thanks:) It did not take me long, if you want to do me a
favour insert text, links use include pages and throw away those hover
buttons.