How to Write Meta Tags for Flash

Anything in the Flash presentation will be viewed as only an image; it cannot be read by the search engines. So, write meta tags for your Web site well. Meta tags are written in syntax and are enclosed with angle brackets (< or >). Usually, there are three parts--meta (identifies it to the search engine), name (denotes what the engine is reading) and content (what the engine reads).

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Open your page in a text editor.
   

2. Locate the header section of your Web page. This is easily done by locating the syntax . Then, locate the title tag, .
   

3. Insert a carriage return following the tag.
   

4. Insert your keywords tag if it is not already present. This is done by typing the following syntax: .

5. The next tag to insert will be your description tag. The syntax for this tag will be

Tips & Warnings

• Meta tags should always be one line, no matter how long they end up being (but no more than 150 words).
• Your description meta tag should contain keywords. This is the description that searchers will likely see below your Web site name, so make it thorough.