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<HEAD>Also, <META> tags are not case-sensitive. The following works just as well:
<!-- Website Design copyright 1999 by Lord of the Gourd -->
<TITLE>Some Guy's Page</TITLE>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW, NOIMAGECLICK">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="WINDOW-TARGET" CONTENT="_TOP">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT">
<!-- Lord of the Gourd, 1999
alert("Welcome to Some Guy's Page!")
// -->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<head>That's the end of the General section.
<!-- Website Design copyright 1999 by Lord of the Gourd -->
<title>Some Guy's Page</title>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow, noimageclick">
<meta http-equiv="window-target" content="_top">
<script language="javascript">
<!-- Lord of the Gourd, 1999
alert("Welcome to Some Guy's Page!")
// -->
</script>
</head>
Possible values for the CONTENT= attribute:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, NOFOLLOW"> : Index a page,
but do not follow the links.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOIMAGEINDEX"> : Don't
index the page or the images.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="FOLLOW, NOFOLLOW"> : Nobody knows
what'll happen.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW, NOIMAGECLICK">
: Don't index the page, follow the links, and don't link directly to the
images.
Examples:
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="poetry, poem, lakeside park, sapphire
cat, thesapphirecat, truth distillery, dreamtree, quote, unicorn prarie">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="steve miller, fly like an eagle,
space cowboy, joker">
Don't try to make your page score higher by listing the same keyword several times.... search engines will discard or severely penalize it. Stay away from tags that look like this:
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns, unicorns">
But this is fine:
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Weird Al, Wierd Al, Yankovic, Yancovic, Yancovik, Yankovik">
Each time, Weird or Yankovic was spelled differently. (For those of you who can't spell, I put the correctly spelled one first.)
Examples:
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="This is Lakeside Park, home
of The Sapphire Cat. Here you'll find poetry, my truth distillery, the
Dreamtree, quotes, the Unicorn Prarie, and anything else I've added since
I wrote this description. :-)">
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="The ultimate source for the
Steve Miller band! MIDI - MP3 - IMAGES - HISTORY - LINKS">
If you have a real domain name from somebody, like http://you.somewhere.net/
or http://thesapphirecat.freeservers.com/, you can specify where robots
look in your site by including a "/robots.txt" file (which could be accessed
something like http://you.somewhere.net/robots.txt.) Sorry, it has to go
there----that's why it doesn't work on GeoCities. You can't upload a file
to www.geocities.com/robots.txt. You can only upload it to www.geocities.com/labyrinth/maze/6502/robots.txt,
and the search engines won't look there.
NOTE: Once you upload a robots.txt, be sure to look at it!
Here in Freeservers (for the moment, at least), anything that's not HTML
is considered "binary" (even if it is a .txt) and returns a "Forbidden"
error unless it was traveled to through a Freeservers web page. The
"Forbidden" error will cause search engines to assume nothing on
the site should be indexed. On the other hand, without the robots.txt
file, the "Not Found" error will cause the robot to assume nothing is forbidden
and index it.
Anyway, a file that tells more than you ever wanted to know about the robots.txt file is available here. Or read the FAQ.