Increase Search Engine Ranking

Metatags do play a significant role in your ranking, not the most important, but significant enough for many search engines. Frequently update your pages, and be sure that your "Revisit" meta tag states "every 30 days." Search engines like fresh content! 

Another important factor affecting ranking is the proper use of the "Title" meta tag. You should have at least five of your most relevant keywords in your title and optionally your site name. Use a maximum of 100 characters.

Your "Description" meta tag should be a maximum of 256 characters and should contain at least five of your most relevant keywords.

Your "Keywords" meta tag should be a maximum of 512 characters and should contain not only keywords, but also keyphrases that you think surfers will use to search with to find sites such as yours. You may repeat the same keyword up to seven times, but no more than this.

Check out my newest free online tool, the Meta Tag Generator, which will compose a complete set of metatags, optimized to give the search engines all of the important data they require in the format they require it, including tips for each meta tag and how to use them for higher ranking.  

I would also recommend regularly checking the top 30 words and phrases used by internet searchers at Wordtracker.com. The list is updated daily. This can be very valuable information. If any of these keywords or phrases are relevant to your site's content, you should add to them to your keyword list, in the text on your page, and in your title!

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Q From HankC: "I want to substitute the submit button with an image, but maintain its process."
A From Bubbels: This code will give your submit button (or any button for that matter) an image background.  I also included the code to change the font for the button, which might prove useful if the default black font doesn't show up well on the background you want to use.  The image you use, of course, will have to be uploaded to your server.  This code only works in IE4+.  In other browsers, it will appear as a regular form button.

Instructions:  Highlight all code in the box below, right click, and select "Copy".  Then right click & select "Paste" in your page HMTL, replacing your existing submit button code. You must change the following parameters in the code to your choice of image and colors: IMAGEFILENAME.JPG, font-family, font-size, color, font-weight.

<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" style="background-image: url('IMAGEFILENAME.JPG'); font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: bold">

Samples: