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Luckily, 95% of all web searches go through only 8 major search engines (which 8? The top six are listed on one of the web sites recommended below!) but even six or eight becomes a chore when you are responsible for more than one website... so utilities such as META Maker (Mac only) were created.
META Maker will generate HTML META tags for you and submit your site to these 43 popular search engines: I have added some links to aid manual updates...
Acoon Altavista Altavista-au Altavista-de Anzwers Euroferret Excite Fastsearch Favar Fireball Go Google Hotbot Infomak Infoseek Intersearch-au Lycos Northernlight NLSearch Viola WebWombat Whatyouseek SearchHound InfoTiger Aeiwi Blitzsuche Canada Claymont Crawler-de e-special-de Spider-de Sear Gopher ukmax Viola-fr Webcrawler WorldSearchCenter DirectHit FindLink 100hot General Search UKMax Maxi Search
META Maker also allows you to batch add META Tags to a folder of HTML files. This is useful to save you time on sites with many HTML files. (That said, each individual page should have some keywords which target its own content in addition to repeating the main site keywords) META Maker was rated the top site promotion tool of year 2000 and received 5 out of 5 stars at tucows.com. META Maker costs $24.95 for standard and $49.95 for Pro which comes on a CD. You can purchase META Maker online at http://www.squirrelsw.com
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
How to improve your ranking in search results
http://www.webmaster-resources.com/freetools.shtml
Meta tag generator, reports and submision to more than
12 major search engines
http://www.bygpub.com/webpromotion
More helpful information
http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatag_res.html
Recommended by Lynda Weinman in her excellent DW
Hands on Training book as is
http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html
http://free.submit-it.com
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