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FP2000: Some FrontPage Content Scores Low w/ Some Search Engines

Article ID:205878
Last Review:October 1, 2001
Revision:1.0
This article was previously published under Q205878
For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 182615 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182615/EN-US/).

SYMPTOMS

Some search engines rank your content lower in the search results than you expect.

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CAUSE

This behavior occurs because some of the FrontPage templates place the <TITLE> tag below the <meta> tag. Some search engines expect to find the <TITLE> tag before the <META> tag. Therefore, some search engines rank your content lower if the <TITLE> tag is found after the <META> tag.

The following FrontPage wizards and templates place the <TITLE> tag below the <META> tag:
Homepage Template
Personal Web
Corporate Presence Wizard
Tutorial Web

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RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, open the page in the Page View of FrontPage. Click the HTML tab and move the <TITLE>. . .</TITLE> tags to the top of the page.

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MORE INFORMATION

You can place the <TITLE> tag at the top of a page. This is an accepted practice. Generally, keywords placed within the title tag have greater importance in relation to how the search engine scores the page. Greater relevance is given to keywords that appear closer to the top of the page.

For more information about improving your score with a specific search engine, contact the consultant for the search engine.

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

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