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Managing Meta Tags in WebSite Tonight

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Last Updated: April 7, 2011 11:56 AM

To promote your website on the Internet, you should enter concise and explicit meta data content for your Web pages. With WebSite Tonight®, you can create custom meta tags if you want to include additional information. Search engines use this information to list websites in searches.

You can create meta tags that prevent search engines from indexing your website using the terms (meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow").

Creating Custom Meta Tags

You can create custom meta tags to include additional information for search engines.

To Create Custom Meta Tags

  1. Log in to your WebSite Tonight account.
  2. From the Design menu, click Launch Page Designer.
  3. From the Page tab, go to the Properties menu, and then select Meta Data. The Page Properties window displays.
  4. In the Name field, type the name of the Meta tag. For example, to create a meta tag that lists the description of your page on the search engine you would use a "description" meta tag.
  5. In the Content field, type the keywords you want to add. Using the same example as above, you type "index, follow".

    NOTE: You can also add a Meta tag for Google® Webmaster Tools. For more information, see Configuring Google® Webmaster Tools.

  6. To add the custom Meta tag to all of your web pages, select Apply To All.
  7. Click Add Meta Tag.
  8. Click OK.

Editing Custom Meta Tags

When you create custom meta tags, you can edit them to update the information they contain.

To Edit Custom Meta Tags

  1. Log in to your WebSite Tonight account.
  2. From the Design menu, select Launch Page Designer.
  3. From the Page tab, go to the Properties menu, and then select Meta Data. The Page Properties window displays.
  4. Edit the Meta tag. For more information, see the To Create a Custom Meta Tag section above.
  5. Click Add Meta Tag.
  6. Click OK.

Deleting Custom Meta Tags

You can delete custom meta tags you no longer want.

To Delete Custom Meta Tags

  1. Log in to your WebSite Tonight account.
  2. From the Design menu, select Launch Page Designer.
  3. From the Page tab, go to the Properties menu, and then select Meta Data. The Page Properties window displays.
  4. Select the tag to delete, and then click Delete.
  5. Click OK.