Adding content to conferences and meta tags

http://www.altavista.com/av/content/addurl_meta.htm is where Altavista explains their philosophy of meta tags. The META tag: Controlling how your Web page is indexed by AltaVista In the absence of any other information, AltaVista will index all words in your document (except for comments), and will use the first few words of the document as a short abstract. It is however possible for you to control how your page is indexed by using the META tag to specify both additional keywords to index, and a short description. Let's suppose your page contains: AltaVista will then do two things: It will index both fields as words, so a search on either poodles or dog will match. It will return the description with the URL. In other words, instead of showing the first couple of lines of the page, a match will look like the following: Pink Poodles Inc We specialize in grooming pink poodles. http://pink.poodle.org/ - size 3k - 29 Feb 96 AltaVista will index the description and keywords up to a limit of 1,024 characters.

Places like siteowner.com and websitegarage.com should also explain the defacto standard for spider-oriented META tags.

We could also submit each conference as it's own entity to the search engines. The full-blown Submit-it has cost money for a while now, I think predating the MS purchase. The lite version (with about 7 search engines) is still free: http://siteowner.linkexchange.com/Free.cfm

Meta-tags are easy to add to the templates, and is one of the things that I'd like to do, both automatic ones that read variables, and at least one host-configurable... just ran out of time before I lost telnet...

I will get this done... I will get this done... I will get this done...

ok, so how do we incorporate meta tags into the conference? (i.e., where do i put it?)

right at the top, of the document, wer can give you some better pointers as he's done some nice work with conferences.

I (or someone) has to put space in the templates for them... last I went to work on these, I was trying to get the title changed so that each conference's title was the conf name instead of the default Conference Center...I want to some variables in for background sound, and style sheets, and etcetera...what do you want first, Wolf? (I mean other than getting your domain up...)

I want to ADD some variables... (and be free of typos...)

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He did splendid work on Geo...the same day as he was writing here last... Thank you! Until I read through here, what seemed like magic to me then I realize is just plain hard work and very careful thinking.

I wonder if there are meta tags in Geo's cofigurations...

Date: Thu, Jul 09, 1998 (15:56) From: Kaylene Thaler (kaylene2) How to change the buttons for just one conference: in the conference rc file, redefine the macro for gifs, which is by default: define gifs "/yapp-icons/" to define gifs " " You will need to have replacement gifs for all of the following: back.xbm hot.gif preserve.gif retire.gif cfcreate.gif kill.gif prevconf.gif search.gif enter.gif new.gif previtem.gif thaw.gif forget.gif nextconf.gif readnew.gif freeze.gif nextitem.gif remember.gif help.gif participants.gif resign.gif or links back to the original gif or xbm files.

So we have done and are on Geo. Actually it is more simple than that. Check my rc and you will see how easily it is done (Thank you for teaching me these things, Cfadm! There is not enought good things I could do for you in this lifetime to show my appreciation...)

or links back to the original gif or xbm files. That is how we did it. In one fell swoop the entire conference got new buttons. Much easier that way, thank you again Cfadm ...there ARE not enough good things...*sigh* I seem to be rattled today...