84 Developing Sites and Pages
4. In the next window, enter any number of keywords (separated by
commas) that you think fairly categorize your site. Put yourself in the
place of a potential visitor. What keywords might they enter if they were
searching for exactly what your site or page has to offer?
5. Set a language code for your site from the drop-down menu to identify
your site's language use. Most user's Internet search engines will permit
language specific searches for web pages, so your site will show in search
results according to its language code setting.
Excluding pages from indexing (robots meta tags)
A robots meta tag can be used by search engine robots to control how they
access the Web site or page. The whole Web site (and pages) can be set to be
indexed/not indexed, page hyperlinks followed/not followed, or any
combination thereof. Site-wide settings are made by checking Index pages on
this site and Follow links from pages or as overrides on specific page
properties.
To enable robot Meta Tag generation:
1. (For the site) Choose Site Properties... from the File menu.
OR
(For a page) Right-click the page in the workspace or Site tab and choose
Page Properties... (or choose the item from the Edit menu).
2. Select the Search Engine tab and check the Create robots meta tags option
(for a page you'll need to override site-wide settings).
3. (For the site) Use the two suboptions to allow or prevent search engines
indexing the entire site (check/uncheck Index pages on this site option) or
to allow or prevent indexing of all pages linked from an indexed page
(check/uncheck Follow links from pages option).
OR
(For the page) Check Override site search engine settings and Create
robots meta tag, then check/uncheck the equivalent suboptions for the
specific page.
