They still use Meta tags - their weight depends from search
engine - exactly it was years ago. What is different is that
average time what is required that engine 'spider' to find
you site is much longer because there is much more
webpages today. If there is many links to Your page
it increases time to find you and also increases rank
at least in Google so Your page is listed higher.
With subbmiting page to search engine You inform
directy that there is page with such URL.

Toomas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol" <[log in to unmask]>


>
> You could do all that several years ago too.  But, don't they use 'meta
> tags' anymore?  It's a lot easier than submitting to individual search
> engines, and much faster.  That's what I used back then, and it got my
> site into the first 10 listed in all the search engines, and only took a
> few minutes to write the code.  It's simply a matter of listing key
> words for the engines, in HTML code they recognize, that draws their
> attention to those key words.  (You use the words that are most
> applicable to your site - the words you think people would use to do
> searches.)  I don't know how it is now, because I dropped my site a few
> years ago, but it used to be that, search engines would look at meta
> tags first to find the words a searcher was looking for.  They only
> scanned the first 'x' number of words on the site otherwise, so, if you
> didn't use meta tags, the key search words could be missed, and people
> wouldn't find you....or you'd be way down the line in search results.
> For all I know, the search engines now look at ALL the words on a site,
> since computers keep getting faster.  I'd be interested to know if it
> still works the way it used to, though, if anyone has more current
> information.  (When I did my site, I simply went to the library and got
> some books on HTML and wrote all the code myself.  I don't think they
> even had programs to do websites then.  That's how I learned about meta
> tags.  You could probably do the same thing now and get more current
> information.)
> Carol Hanson
>
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