How to Add Keywords to a Web Page With FrontPage

Keywords are used by major search engines like Google or Yahoo! to index a site. Add keywords using FrontPage 97, Microsoft's easy-to-use Web design program.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Microsoft FrontPage

1. Start the FrontPage program and open an existing web.

2. Choose Show FrontPage Editor from the Tools menu, or click on the FrontPage Editor icon on the toolbar.

3. Open the page you want to add the keywords to.

4. Click on the File menu and choose Page Properties. Click on the Custom tab.

5. Click Add New in the User Variables box.

6. Name the new variable Keywords.

7. Type the keywords in the Value box. Click OK.

Tips & Warnings

• Use keywords in the order of most important to least important.
• Add common misspellings of certain words, such as restaurant.
• Make sure you add as many keywords relating to your site as you can think of, in order of most important to least important. For example, an auto mechanic's page should include keywords like auto, automobile, car, vehicle, repair, service, transmission, shop, etc.
• Use specific keywords for each page on your site.
• Users don't see the keywords; they're just used by search engines. Adding them helps ensure that your page comes up when a viewer searches the Web for your page's topic.
• While repeating keywords again and again may gain your site more exposure with some search engines, others, such as Yahoo, will not catalog submissions with multiple keywords.