Generating meta tags

In this section you learn how to generate meta tags using Hello Engines!.

In the Metatags section, you can generate individual meta tags for each page or HTML document of your website. This is necessary, because many search engines index the pages of websites by means of the keywords you enter via meta tags. You can either generate new meta tags or import meta tags from existing HTML files. In addition to that Hello Engines! allows to insert the generated meta tags directly into your HTML documents.

To generate meta tags using the integrated Metatag Generator, enter the following information first:

  1. Go to the Metatags section.

    Generating meta tags

  2. In the Author and Publisher fields enter the name of the responsible persons. Companies may also enter the company name.

  3. In the Copyright field, enter the name of the holder of the copyright.

  4. When entering information into the Topic field, do the same as when entering information into the Category field in the Data section: Select an appropriate category from the list.

  5. In the Keywords field, enter the keywords directly, separated by comma. Make sure you have defined keywords that are relevant for the respective page.

  6. In the Description field enter a description of the individual page. Avoid repetitions, superlatives and capital letters.

  7. From the drop down list Page-type select an appropriate type.

  8. In the Indexing field, you can define how the robots of search engines analyze your website and how they enter it in the search engine database. You can choose between four options:

    Index, follow    : Robots follow all links on this page, read the content of the HTML file and the linked files, index them and enter these information into the search engine database.

    Index, No follow    : Index of this page is created and linked pages are ignored.

    No index, follow    : No index is created, linked pages are analyzed.

    No index, no follow    : No index is created, linked pages are ignored. This option prevents your HTML document from being included in a search database!

  9. From the drop down list Audience, select the user group you are aiming to address through your website.

  10. Then choose one of the options under Expires (valid until). This is necessary if the content of a website is only valid until a specific date.

  11. Click at the bottom of the window, to save your entries to a MTG file.

To now generate meta tags out of the entries you made, do as follows:

  1. Click the button. If you entered special characters in the Keywords field, Hello Engines! asks you if you wish to replace these special characters by standard HTML codes (recommended).

  2. Save your entries to a meta tag file (*mtg), to reuse it for other pages.

  3. Then copy the generated meta tags to clipboard. Paste them from clipboard to the section between <HEAD> and <HEAD> of the desired HTML file. Or:

  4. Click the button to open the Insert meta tags dialog box. This dialog box is divided into two areas: Source and target. On the right you find the source files. These are the files containing meta tags. On the left (your personal file system) you find the target files. These are the files in which you insert the meta tags.

  5. To insert the recently generated meta tags into a HTML document, select from the left part of the window the folder in which you want to insert the meta tags. If the selected folder contains valid HTML files, these files are displayed in the lower window.

  6. From the right part of the window, under Selection of source files choose Project files. In the right window, click the source file (your saved meta tag file), and drag it to the desired source file in the left part of the window by pressing and holding the left mouse button.

  7. Release the mouse button as soon as the pointer points to the desired file and the file is highlighted.

  8. Confirm this process by clicking OK.

NOTE: If you want to insert meta tags from an existing HTML file, the procedure is almost the same. Just select Explorer from the Selection of source files section, to access your entire file system. Now you can insert the meta tags into the desired source file by using drag and drop.

 

Now you have learned how to generate meta tags using the Metatag Generator. In the next section you get to know how to import meta tags.