| ART610 Introduction to Imaging and Digital Arts Seminar |
Timothy Nohe |
Many search engines employing "spiders" use the information in your Meta Tags to catalog your site.This information is "read" for keyword hits when someone does a search for your website using Google, Hotbot, Excite, etc.. If you do not already have meta tags on your homepage, then simply cut and paste the code (seen below) into the <HEAD> section of every web page you want cataloged. NOTE: If you are using web design software such as MS FrontPage, Adobe PageMill, or Claris HomePage, then you will need to switch to "Source" mode first, look for the <HEAD> tag at the top, and paste- in these tags anywhere between <HEAD> and </HEAD>. If you are using BBedit or SimpleText, simply cut and paste the source code.
The raw code looks like this:
<META NAME="description" CONTENT=">
Here's an example of what to do:
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Art, Poetry, Digital Images, Digital Sound, Activism, Spoof, Postmodernism, Theory, Painting, Photography">
Search engines usually rank by frequency of matches to key words in a query. So to get your page at the top of a search engine "hit list", repeat a key phrase over and over....
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Cadavre Exquis, Exquisite Corpse, Cadavre Exquis, Exquisite Corpse, Cadavre Exquis, Exquisite Corpse"></code>
...and you will get this result:
1. Cadavre Exquis: A galerie surrealiste
of Exquisite Corpse images and poems. Work created as part of
VA40 Introduction to Computing in the Arts, at the University
of California, San Diego. Timothy Nohe, Visiting Lecturer, Chris
Csikszentmihalyi and Rachel Stevens TAs.
99% http://art-slab.ucsd.edu/ARTSLAB/VA40ProjSpring96/
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