How to Add Keywords to a Web Page With Dreamweaver

Many search engines use keywords (meta tags) to index sites. Keywords are an extremely important tool to ensure that your pages appear when someone uses Google, Yahoo! or another search engine. This tutorial refers to Dreamweaver 3.0.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Search Engines

1. Start the Dreamweaver program and open the page that will contain the keywords.

2. Open the Insert menu and select Head. Choose Keywords.

3. Type the relevant keywords, separated by commas.

4. Click OK. The keywords are placed in the meta tag of the HTML file.

5. Save the page.

6. Upload the page to the your Web server and register it with search engines. (See "How to Register a Web Site With Search Engines" in the Related eHows.) Use the same keywords in the registration process that you used in your page.

Tips & Warnings

• Add specific, well-chosen keywords to each page in your site; each individual page might come up in a search request.
• Most search engines have a limit of 10 to 25 words. The remaining words will be ignored.
• Use the most concise, relevant words first. Less descriptive words can be placed at the end.
• Search engines sometimes use Web page titles, and titles often appear in lists of results. See "How to Add a Title to a Web Page With Dreamweaver" in the Related eHows for instructions.
• Avoid using numbers, catch phrases (like "A1!" or "the BEST") or gimmicks in your keywords. Many search engines, including Yahoo and AltaVista, will not index pages with certain forbidden characters in the keywords.
• Do not use well-known commercial names, or variations of those names, as keywords. Many companies take aggressive measures against Web sites that use such lures to attract users or to get indexed faster.