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HTML - Description In Searches
how do I set my description for my site when it is found via a search engine?
I have a meta description tag, but when i search my site on google, yahoo, msn, etc... the description doesnt fit my meta one.... any better way to set a description? Similar Tutorialshi there, how do i get my site to come up on the first page of a google search ? here is my meta description - basically i want it to find us when anyone enters - dash8, Dash 8, Dash 8 parts, etc... Thanks! <meta name="description" content="Dash 8, Dash8 100, Dash 8 100, Dash8 200, 3 Points Aviation, Three Points Aviation, DHC 8, Dash 8 200, Dash8 300, Dash 8 300, Dash8 400, Dash 8 400, Dash8 parts, Dash 8 parts, Dash8 engines, Dash 8 engines, Dash8 support, Dash 8 support, Dash8 landing gear, Dash 8 landing gear, Dash8 propellers, Dash 8 Propellers, Dash8 aircraft parts, Dash 8 aircraft parts, regional aircraft parts"> I work as a product manager for a company and one of my responsibilities is to update pricing on our website and I've just recently taken to making cool tables to reference similar products on select product pages. However, with each reference in a description field, the more search results get convoluted and the harder it is to get what you are searching for the come up because our website search tool lists searches alphabetically rather than by relevance. So my question is this: are there any HTML tags that bypass the way search tools organize its listings and let the webmaster specify, "I want this product to show up first in a search." For example, one of our product numbers is P992. We sell similar products, like P993, P994, etc. and I reference P992 on each of these other product pages, but with each product I mention P992 on, that product shows up when you search for P992 on our site, as well. Most of the time the actual product that is searched for is buried somewhere in the middle, depending on where it stands alphabetically, and I can't figure out how to get it to show up at the top of the page. Anyone have any suggestions? I'd rather not spend money on a more advanced search tool and would much rather manually tell our search engine to list the actual product, P992, first and then all other products that mention P992 in their description field to be listed after that. Thanks for any help. Hey, I'm trying create a form that contains two radio buttons and a text box and a submit button. Depending on which radio button is selected, a search is done on the keyword. One of the buttons is for a google search and the other is for an internal site I am working with. The problem I am running into is that the 'method' attribute in my form has to equal both "get" and "post", depending on what I select. I've tried a few things using scripts but nothing successful. Any help would be great. Thanks Can someone please give me the code for a search bar that searches your own site. I am making a site with tons of song lyrics. I just started so there is nothing to sow you as an example. Sorry Thanks for the help! Hi, I'm brand new to HTML and web design and would like to make sure that Google searches (and other search engines) can actually find my page when searched for. Right now I only have the following code in my index.html file, and it doesn't seem to work. My url is kristenhill.sasktelwebsite.net, and my business name is Kristen's Crafts. Google searches for those things do not even work, so I know that I'm doing something wrong! I would LOVE for "wedding invitations regina" (Regina is my city), etc. to bring up my webpage, but this code isn't doing that for me: <head> <title>Kristen's Crafts</title> <Meta name="Description" content="kristenhill.sasktelwebsite.net"> <Meta name="Keywords" content="kristenhill.sasktelwebsite.net,kristen's crafts,kristenhill,Kristen Hill,kristen,hill,regina,saskatchewan,scrapbooking,scrapbook,cards,cardmaking,crafts,classes,photogr aphy,photographer,wedding,invitation,invitations,invites,wedding invitations, wedding invites, wedding invitation,custom,party,show,workshop,birthday"> </head> I have just started playing around with AJAX, and made a simple input text field that continuously suggests pages as the user types into the textfield. However, in most browsers, the browser also tries to do something similar, by displaying a list of similar queries for any input with the same name attribute... I end up with two lists of suggestions :-) Is there a way to prevent the browser suggestions from turning up? Robert Hi, I am building a website and have a lot of different images on it. I am trying to put a 3D type of box around the image - so that I can put in a description for the different images. Attached are 2 images - 1 with a screenshot of my images and the other of a screenshot from another website of what I am trying to achieve. The only difference is that I am trying to put a box around the image as well and would like to keep the description below the image in some instances and beside the image in other instances (see screenshot 1). Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. <meta name="description" content="wonderfull beach - blue bay - rooms- hoiliday fresh air google3a970ace18e26dae.html"> Can anyone tell me what the google html file in the description tag is. Its is probably SEO related. I have not been able to find anything about it. Can it be the sitemap XML file in some disguise? Best regards I followed this guide he http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...scription.html My site: www.designjetpartsfast.com My code (Important part in red): Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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Despite the code seemingly correct, Google & Yahoo seem to ignore it. I have heard Google takes at least 6 hours to propagate any changes in the index.html, but it's been about 12 hours now and nothing has changed. Here is what Google displays: (see attachment) As you can tell from the attachment, it's retrieving text from the body of my index file. This is NOT what I want. It needs to read from the meta description instead. Hi everyone I have read a few articles on this and I would like to explain what I am doing. In the site I am developing I have put the sites logo in a div and in the CSS I have put the image of the logo as the background-image. I would like to know if there are any tricks when adding the alt, title and long description tags? I am also using a h1 inside the div with the logo bg image with a text indent so the text doesnt show. This helps with SEO. The div is also clickable using a technique I found at BonRouge: http://bonrouge.com/br.php?page=faq#divlink I would just like some opinions please? I have given the div a title with the logo's name inside the title. But can I do more by adding an alt tag and long description? Any advice is much appreciated! Thanks! Try googling "SWTOR". The first link has a very nice description, e.g., several links to the material within etc. How can I do this? Can someone link some sample code? Is this all done within the meta description? Thanks all! Love the advice here on this forum ) How do I get rid of my automatic golive meta description and write my own? Here is my current source. <title>Watch It Mister! Funny Gay Videos, Gay Videos of Hot Emo Guys Kissing, and More Gay Videos!</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta content="Adobe GoLive 5" name="generator"> <meta content="Lavation Design" name="author"> <meta content="index, follow" name="robots"> <meta content="Free gay video sharing community." name="abstract"> <meta content="Watch It Mister is an online gay video sharing community. Lots of Gay Videos, anything from funny gay videos to gay emo guys kissing. This is the home of gay videos.=" name="keywords" href="style.css" type="text/css" <META rel="stylesheet" description?>>> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/css/anylink.css"> I am having problems with putting HTML code into an RSS 2.0 description tag. If I escape the HTML using <![CDATA[, the HTML shows up fine when the feed is viewed with Firefox 2.0, IE7, and various feed readers. The problem occurs when browsers like IE6 and Netscape view the .xml feed, as these do not support native RSS. To allow the latter browsers to easily display the feed, I use XSL to transform the XML into something much nicer. However, the escaped HTML shows up as literal characters (code) in the feed when viewed with IE6 and Netscape. How can I show HTML in the description tag of an XML feed using XSL? I also get literal characters when trying entity-encoded HTML. Hello. When you do a search for my company which is Nikki Vain, the title and description shows up as [FLASH] Title NAME*: EMAIL*: MESSAGE*: File Format: Shockwave Flash Title NAME*: EMAIL*: MESSAGE*: nikkivain.com/flash/main_v8.sw I went in to my ftp and changed the index.html so this would not happen at www.nikkivain.com and it is fine there. I am so confused Thanks for the help in advance |
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