Webby coding

[OptimusPrime]

anything wrong with this?

<meta name="description" content="A website about blah">
<meta name="keywords" content="blah, blaah">

ok website comes up on google, but has no description next to it. :S

any help appriciated. :monkee:

[Sfinkta]

The tags themselves look OK, but I'm not sure if Google always uses the description tag - sometimes it grabs content from other parts of the site based on what you searched for. Though that doesn't explain why you see nothing...

Make sure that the meta tags are in the 'head' section of the page, and also that you use the 'title' tag as well, before the meta tags. It helps to use relevant text that describes your site properly as well. If your site is dynamic that can changes too.

Search engine optimisation is a black art, but there are lots of guides out there :)

[OptimusPrime]

nice one, still doesnt work like, its a update of a old site so could it take a while for google to recognise this?

[Sfinkta]

Ahh right , yes - it can take some time to update. Sometimes weeks :( It depends on how soon Google can trawl your site, and on other things like how popular the site is, how many other links point to it etc.

[OptimusPrime]

safe mate, at least i know its not me being a tard, at least i hope not :E

[[ITV]bom]

i was just gonna say that ... u'll have to wait for google to do there next webcrawl tbh