Search Engine Indexint

[s_bist]

Hi,

I have a main file which includes 4 asp files or htm files and the result is shown to the users on the browser. But all these files have metatags and head and title tags along with the main file. Then in this case, tags of which file will be considered by any search engine for indexing? My problem is that my site is not getting indexed properly despite of having keywords in each page.

Thanks

[Manish Malik]

Search engines usually use the meta tags found in the HEAD section of the page they access. So if your main file's HEAD section has any meta tags, they will be used.


Manish
http://www.manishmalik.com

Discuss it all at the Developer Forum : http://www.codeguru.com/cgi-bin/bbs/wt/wwwthreads.pl?action=list&Board=devforum ...

[s_bist]

Thanks for your reply. Further clarification required. Pls help me.

My main file is also an asp page which inculdes 4 other files. All these 5 files have head section and metatags. In that case which metatags will be taken by the search engine?

Thanks

[Manish Malik]

Have you put an HTML HEAD section output in your ASP file ?? If yes, then have you included the files before this HEAD section comes up or after that?

Basically, the search engine is going to parse the HEAD section META tags which it is going to encounter first. So you have to check the order in which you have included the files, or better still, keep a separate HEAD section in the main ASP file with the required META tags.

Also, search engines like Google may even take weeks to index your site. So be patient if you submitted it recently.


Manish
http://www.manishmalik.com

Discuss it all at the Developer Forum : http://www.codeguru.com/cgi-bin/bbs/wt/wwwthreads.pl?action=list&Board=devforum ...