META Tags

[stevehale]

Hi

This is my first message but I really need help with this I am pulling what hair I have left out. I have been trying to add meta tags to my homepage which is within Actinic www.laurenrose.co.uk as when I run it through http://www.seomasters.com/meta-tag-analyzer/ it tells me I have absolutly nothing. Although we have a google page rank of 4 I cannot find us using any search term other than our own name. I know we are in a competive crowded business but it would be nice to at least find myself within the first 20 pages!! My question then is should I edit the Primary Brochere page myself which is what I have done, and add the tags. Or let Actinic do it with the page propertys in my homepage.

Thanks in advance

Steve
www.laurenrose.co.uk

[Darren]

Hi there.

There are quite a few discussions regarding Search Engine Optimisation on this forum, take a look at

Here

for the thread, and Here

for some information from Google.

Hope this helps.

[stevehale]

What my main concern is, why is it showing that I have no META tags at all?

[Mike Hughes]

It is strange as it picks up my meta tags ok.

It may be this bit at the the start of your page:

<Actinic:TEMPLATE type="begin" filename="C:\Program Files\Actinic Ecommerce v6\Sites\Site1\SiteHTML\SiteRoot_index.html"/>

Looks to me like your primary template may be corrupt.

Mike

[antrixx]

I've just checked my site on there and it's showing as no meta tags too. What exactly needs to be added for the tags put into the actinic? I want all tags (brochure pages, main page, and all tags put into each of the sections, etc) to be listed. It's probably just a NETQUOTEVAR missing (or a couple of them missing).

[antrixx]

Ok, I've just had a bit of messing around and found what seems to be the problem.

I downloaded the index.html file via FTP and the following is the first two lines of the file:

<Actinic:TEMPLATE type="begin" filename="C:\Program Files\Actinic Ecommerce v6\Sites\Site1\SiteHTML\SiteRoot_index.html"/>
<!-- BrochurePrimary HTML begin -->

I removed this line and the meta tags were seen no problem.

I went into the Act_BrochurePrimary.html file, but there's no reference to this at all.
The brochure page starts with <!-- BrochurePrimary HTML begin --> and nothing before it, so I'm not sure where that's coming from.

I also noticed a lot of references to C:\ from the downloaded file, but Act_Primary.html and Act_BrochurePrimary.html have no reference to the C:\ drive.

What is causing the first line to be added, and why are there references to the C:\ drive when the templates have no reference to it at all?

[Mike Hughes]

That's the second time this strange bit of code is showing up. From what I can see SiteRoot_index.html as the temporary preview name for the index.html page at the root level (i.e. it's used so the preview knows the difference between what will be index.html and acatalog/index.html).

It certainly has no place in the uploaded files.

Maybe someone in Actinic could investigate and see if there's a bug that could be causing this.

Mike

[Nadeem]

Hi there

<Actinic:TEMPLATE type="begin" filename="C:\Program Files\Actinic Ecommerce v6\Sites\Site1\SiteHTML\SiteRoot_index.html"/>

You can rid of the above, by going into Actinic, then go to "Design | Option | Miscellaneous"

Simply tick Compact HTML/CGI and it will remove all comments and template queries.

These "Actinic:Templates" are interpreted by the dreamweaver extensions

Kind Regards

[Mike Hughes]

Thanks Nadeem,

I always use the compact HTML option as a) the files are smaller and b) the html produced is hard for anyone else to read.

This is good for stopping competitors but bad for debugging if you need external help.

mike

[Nadeem]

Hi Mike

This is good for stopping competitors but bad for debugging if you need external help.

True, i normally say when designing a site, untick compact cgi/html, but when the site is finished and finalised , then compact it and do a final upload.

Kind Regards

[stevehale]

Thanks

Thanks for that, it seems to have removed that suspect line of code. Athough now the title is appearing when I run it through that meta analyser it still can't see the meta tags even though when I look at the code for the page I can see they are there!

Any suggestions would be welcome
Thanks
Steve

[ocbon]

Re: Thanks

Originally posted by stevehale
Thanks for that, it seems to have removed that suspect line of code. Athough now the title is appearing when I run it through that meta analyser it still can't see the meta tags even though when I look at the code for the page I can see they are there!

Any suggestions would be welcome
Thanks
Steve

The same with me. After compacting the html. Using http://www.seomasters.com/cgi-bin/meta.pl It still reports no meta tag description of meta tag keywords, yet I can see them upon View source.

Also, regarding meta tags, where do I put the other meta tag codes such as the robot tag and author tag - is this required by the search engines, especially Google.

I have read all the posts regarding meta tags, but it is so much and so many variations, I'm just totally confused

Thanks
Bonnie

[Mike Hughes]

Ok. It was doing the same thing fro me so I took a look in some more detail.

Essentially the script is pretty dumb and doesn't like the actinic stuff that appears before the meta tags.

You can change the order of these so the meta tags appear first by moving this line:

<!--@act NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERMETA -->

from where it is and putting it straight after the title tag.

Doing this doesn't seem to break anything else and the analysis script will then find the meta tags OK.

Mike

PS. Robot and author tags are not needed. Don't worry about them.

[stevehale]

Excellent works fine now, thanks for that you have saved what hair I have left from being pulled out.

[ocbon]

meta tags

Originally posted by olderscot
Ok. It was doing the same thing fro me so I took a look in some more detail.

Essentially the script is pretty dumb and doesn't like the actinic stuff that appears before the meta tags.

You can change the order of these so the meta tags appear first by moving this line:

<!--@act NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERMETA -->

from where it is and putting it straight after the title tag.

Doing this doesn't seem to break anything else and the analysis script will then find the meta tags OK.

Mike

PS. Robot and author tags are not needed. Don't worry about them.

Hi Mike,

I moved it to straight after the title tag, but when going to
this site to do an analysis, it still is only showing the description tag.

Any other suggestions,
Thanks
Bonnie