keywords help needed

[hunny]

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to add keywords and meta tags to my site, have been advised that I should right click on the home page text and then click view source,
when i do this nothing happens.
Any ideas what might be wrong?

Please reply in very simple terms - i'm no techno!! :oops:

Many thanks

[Rob Holmes]

Hi Hunny,

Your designer needs to add the keywords into the page and then upload it to the server your website is hosted on.

At the moment you will see a <title> tag at the top of the source code - this is the only tag in there at the moment others can be added easily in your 'offline' copy of your website and then copied up th your server so it is available online.

Have a look at some of the tags on our site to get a clue www.matrixxhosting.com then goto view then source and you'll see the tags at the top of the screen.

Hope this helps,

Rob

[hunny]

Hi Matrixx,
thanks for your comments, have tried to do this, but its not working on my PC any ideas anyone?? :D
Thanks

[Jayne]

Hi,

You may be better doing what I did, put some money away each week and get a designer to sort it out. They are worth every penny. You can worry about the techy stuff later :D

Jayne

[Belladonna]

Hi Hunny -

Are you saying that using the "right click" to "view source" is not working? Or, you are attempting to add keyword to your meta tags yourself and that is not working?

[Jayne]

Hi Anne,

Try the right click on the block text bit at the top, if that doesn't, right click all over until you can see source on the list :D If you click on a picture part it doesn't work :D

Jayne

[Stephen]

If you're actually clicking the 'view source' menu and nothing's hapenning, that's normally due to the temporary folder being full. (I'm assuming you're using Internet Explorer.)

Try clicking the 'Tools' menu at the top, then 'Internet Options'. In there, click the 'Delete Files' button about half way down.

If you've never done this, it could take several minutes to do.

[Stephen]

PS. That's not going to help you actually change your keywords - that's a bit trickier, but it should allow you to see what keywords etc. you already have.

[hunny]

Hi all,
thanks for all your comments, I'll let you know how I get on.
Thanks

[hunny]

Hi again,
took your advice Stephen and emptied the temp files - its working now.
I now need to enter my keywords - any advice / tips on how to do this please?

many thanks,
anne

[esynetics]

Hi there

Online
You will need to login to your hosting account control panel with the username and password details supplied by your web designer/hosting provider.

You will then need to locate your files through your online file manager and add the meta tags to the source code for each of the relevant pages.

On your own PC
You will need an ftp application such as http://www.ipswitch.com/products/ws_ftp/index.asp
Download the trial version and connect to your website account.

This will then allow you to download the files from your web server and open them up in notepad. Add the appropriate meta tags i.e. keywords, description, keyphrases etc and then simply upload and overwrite the existing files.

If this is all a bit to much just PM me and I will try and get it done for you.

[Srivvy]

Hello Hunny

This is not something you should be doing yourself if you have not worked on web pages before.

Get a friend or web designer to add these for you, as any errors could stop the whole site working.

Also ensure that the keywords tag does not contain any words or phrases that do not appear in exactly the same manner as on the visible page text. Web designers tend to make this mistake all the time.

To get your website seen, meta tags are only a small detail anyway and contrary to popular belief, do not help much, as search engines have got much cleverer in how they rank a website. Apart from the title tag, other factors such as links and text are what you need to focus on.