kms1978uk
11-01-2005, 03:19 PM
My firend has been advised by her web design company that META TAGS are not needed for her site at all. Infact this is all that is contained in her header -
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Amaison</title>
<base href="http://www.amaison.co.uk/">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
</head>
She has had no business from her site and it is a disaster for her. I used to do work for her, but retired from the workforce last year to have my child...I am helping her with this as a friend.
I am extremely worried about her stats....no one is visiting...although they are telling her yehhh...you got 48 hit today....I am sure these are spidersnot people visiting...have a look.... (http://www.amaison.co.uk/sitestats/).
this is what the company had to say.....
About the meta tags: I've had lengthy discussions with ***** from *****. He's one of the best internet marketeers in the world. If you want to generate huge amounts of traffic to your site, he's your man. He kindly took a look at your site and made a few suggestions.
Search engines, and the way in which they rank your site, have changed a lot over the years. Although, the traditional method of researching keyword popularity has not changed, just the way in which they are implemented. Meta tags are no longer used by search engines as site owners were placing irrelevant but very popular keywords into the meta tags in an attempt to increase ranking. This was seen by Google as detrimental to the integrity of search results. So Google implemented another method, the Page Content Index. This method uses the text on each page of your website as keywords. Google, MSN, and all search engines now use this method as it provides search results far more relevant than the meta tag method.
What ***** suggests doing is going through the product descriptions on your website and re-writing them to include more of the keywords you want people to find your site by. I also showed ***** your Site Stats (http://www.amaison.co.uk/sitestats/). After looking carefully at the statistics, ***** was quite surprised to see so many visits, around 40 visits a day. So people aren't having a problem finding your site. Increasing visitors would never hurt a website, but ****** suggests the problem is elsewhere. Advertising a couple of special offers on the home-page always attracts attention. That might be an option.
......PLease guys from one retired mummy web designer to the next(need your helpfeel a bit out of it). Can you help my friend. I hate seeing people getting ripped off or fobbed off because they are not very technical...she need help. I need help to fight her corner.
:) Any and all comments wanted...please email me.
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Amaison</title>
<base href="http://www.amaison.co.uk/">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
</head>
She has had no business from her site and it is a disaster for her. I used to do work for her, but retired from the workforce last year to have my child...I am helping her with this as a friend.
I am extremely worried about her stats....no one is visiting...although they are telling her yehhh...you got 48 hit today....I am sure these are spidersnot people visiting...have a look.... (http://www.amaison.co.uk/sitestats/).
this is what the company had to say.....
About the meta tags: I've had lengthy discussions with ***** from *****. He's one of the best internet marketeers in the world. If you want to generate huge amounts of traffic to your site, he's your man. He kindly took a look at your site and made a few suggestions.
Search engines, and the way in which they rank your site, have changed a lot over the years. Although, the traditional method of researching keyword popularity has not changed, just the way in which they are implemented. Meta tags are no longer used by search engines as site owners were placing irrelevant but very popular keywords into the meta tags in an attempt to increase ranking. This was seen by Google as detrimental to the integrity of search results. So Google implemented another method, the Page Content Index. This method uses the text on each page of your website as keywords. Google, MSN, and all search engines now use this method as it provides search results far more relevant than the meta tag method.
What ***** suggests doing is going through the product descriptions on your website and re-writing them to include more of the keywords you want people to find your site by. I also showed ***** your Site Stats (http://www.amaison.co.uk/sitestats/). After looking carefully at the statistics, ***** was quite surprised to see so many visits, around 40 visits a day. So people aren't having a problem finding your site. Increasing visitors would never hurt a website, but ****** suggests the problem is elsewhere. Advertising a couple of special offers on the home-page always attracts attention. That might be an option.
......PLease guys from one retired mummy web designer to the next(need your helpfeel a bit out of it). Can you help my friend. I hate seeing people getting ripped off or fobbed off because they are not very technical...she need help. I need help to fight her corner.
:) Any and all comments wanted...please email me.