meta tags

[Candoer]

All
I have the following meta tags on every page of my
web site (www.candoer.org).

Are they necessary on every page or only on the
index page?

<meta name="robot" content="noinde x; nofollow">
<meta name="creator" content="Robert J. Catlin, Sr.">
<meta name="publisher " content="House of Cat">
<meta name="descripti on" content="A free web site
for CANDOERs. CANDOER is an acronym for
Communicators AND Others enjoying Retirement.
It is the official site for the CANDOER Retirement
Group. All retired Department of State, Office of Diplomatic
Communications, Office of Communications,
Office of Information Management, Office of
Logistic Management and Bureau of Information
Management Resources and people who worked
with and for them are eligible for free membership.
The purpose of the CANDOER Retirement Group
is to promote a continuing interest among members
in the enjoyment of each other and to hold monthly
luncheons for members and their guests.">
<meta name="keywords" content="pictur es,
enjoyment, retirement, retirees, retired, CANDOER,
back issues, news, how to join, who we are, Directory
of Members, e-mail, addresses, passworded,
luncheons, schedules, free, current issues,
activities, Department of State, Office of Diplomatic
Communications, Office of Communications,
Office of Information Management, Bureau of
Information Resource Management, official site,
Retirement group, with, for, eligible, membership,
guests, no annual dues, monthly newsletter, available
to all, yearly donation, News fund, Memorial fund,
enjoyment, monthly luncheons, founded 1994">

Bob Catlin

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Re: meta tags

Candoer wrote:

I have the following meta tags on every page of my web site
(www.candoer.org).
>
Are they necessary on every page or only on the index page?

You should use (some) info on each page, but that which is relevant to
the page.

<meta name="robot" content="noinde x; nofollow">

Why? Don't you want Google to find the pages?

<meta name="creator" content="Robert J. Catlin, Sr.">
<meta name="publisher " content="House of Cat">

Arbitrary. Only for your edification.

<meta name="descripti on" content="A free web site
for CANDOERs. CANDOER is an acronym for ...

Description should be unique to each page. Search engines sometimes use
the first mnnpf words as the related text they show in their results.
Keep it short and simple.

<meta name="keywords" content="pictur es,
enjoyment, retirement, retirees, retired, CANDOER, ...

Search engines stopped reading keywords years ago due to abuse. Probably
not worth the effort to maintain them.

If'n I were you, I would spend more time updated to semantically correct
markup.

use <h1instead of beginning with <h4- looks like you are only using
headers for font sizing instead of actual headers

update the markup to remove oldstyle markup

[please!] change the bright red bold text to something easier on the
eyes, such as normal-sized black text. I would spend very little time at
this site because of that.

drop the background images - makes for difficult reading

stop the animation

remove "Return to the top of the Page" which appears after every few
lines

the hit counter is .. well, read these groups. Use your server logs
instead of displaying it on your page. Nobody else cares.

look to fixing errors:
<http://validator.w3.or g/check?verbose=1 &uri=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.candoer. org%2F>

...and so forth.

--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

[Candoer]

Re: meta tags

look to fixing errors:
<http://validator.w3.or g/check?verbose=1 &uri=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.candoer. org%2F>
>
..and so forth.
>
--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

I appreciate all the information and suggestions. I am in the process of
rewriting the whole web site so will take your suggestions to heart.

Thank You!

Bob Catlin - Also known as CANDOER Cat

[David E. Ross]

Re: meta tags

On 6/21/2008 1:22 PM, Candoer wrote:

All
I have the following meta tags on every page of my
web site (www.candoer.org).
>
Are they necessary on every page or only on the
index page?
>
<meta name="robot" content="noinde x; nofollow">

This applies only to the page where it appears. If you want to block
bots in general, use a robots.txt file. See, for example,
<http://www.robotstxt.o rg/robotstxt.html> .

<meta name="creator" content="Robert J. Catlin, Sr.">

In an organization, different people might work on various pages. It's
a good idea to use this to track who created which page.

<meta name="publisher " content="House of Cat">

<meta name="descripti on" content="A free web site
for CANDOERs. CANDOER is an acronym for
Communicators AND Others enjoying Retirement.
It is the official site for the CANDOER Retirement
Group. All retired Department of State, Office of Diplomatic
Communications, Office of Communications,
Office of Information Management, Office of
Logistic Management and Bureau of Information
Management Resources and people who worked
with and for them are eligible for free membership.
The purpose of the CANDOER Retirement Group
is to promote a continuing interest among members
in the enjoyment of each other and to hold monthly
luncheons for members and their guests.">

A shorter description should be provided for each page. It should
describe only that page, not the entire Web site.

<meta name="keywords" content="pictur es,
enjoyment, retirement, retirees, retired, CANDOER,
back issues, news, how to join, who we are, Directory
of Members, e-mail, addresses, passworded,
luncheons, schedules, free, current issues,
activities, Department of State, Office of Diplomatic
Communications, Office of Communications,
Office of Information Management, Bureau of
Information Resource Management, official site,
Retirement group, with, for, eligible, membership,
guests, no annual dues, monthly newsletter, available
to all, yearly donation, News fund, Memorial fund,
enjoyment, monthly luncheons, founded 1994">

Get rid of this from all pages. It's now meaningless.

--
David Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

Have you been using Netscape and now feel abandoned by AOL?
Then use SeaMonkey. Go to <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>.

[Candoer]

Re: meta tags

>
Get rid of this from all pages. It's now meaningless.
>
--
David Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
>
Have you been using Netscape and now feel abandoned by AOL?
Then use SeaMonkey. Go to <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>.

David

Thanks for the comments! I will heed your advice. This is a special
project by a 70 year old retiree to keep in contact with the many
people I worked with and for over 42 years working in one office.
So, I guess, the only reason I had my name there was an ego thing.
I am trying to cut down on the size of the web site as it has grown
over the years - and I am trying my best to switch it from HTML only
to HTML and CSS. Right now I am butchering both, but learning
as I go along.

Again, thanks!

Bob Catlin

[David E. Ross]

Re: meta tags

On 6/22/2008 8:24 AM, Candoer wrote:

>
Thanks for the comments! I will heed your advice. This is a special
project by a 70 year old retiree to keep in contact with the many
people I worked with and for over 42 years working in one office.
So, I guess, the only reason I had my name there was an ego thing.
I am trying to cut down on the size of the web site as it has grown
over the years - and I am trying my best to switch it from HTML only
to HTML and CSS. Right now I am butchering both, but learning
as I go along.

I'm a 66-year-old (almost 67) retiree. I can tell you that old dogs do
indeed learn new tricks (including CSS). What even more important is
that many of the old tricks are still quite good.

--
David Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

Have you been using Netscape and now feel abandoned by AOL?
Then use SeaMonkey. Go to <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>.