and how do you know where to insert them in your web site?  I buld with Y! SiteBuilder and I have inserted title, description, title, and keyword meta tags, but I don't have a clue about ALT tags.
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When you hover over an image, you'll generally see text. That text comes from the ALT tag. It's Alternate Text.\n\nWhen a picture doesn't show and/or doesn't print, the text is put in it's place.\n\nGenerally you want to put a short (one or two word) description of what the picture is.\n\nHover over the Yahoo! Answers (Beta) logo on the top of the page for 3 seconds. See...\n\nNow hover "Search the Web" right by the search box at the top right. See that's an image as well.\n\nALT Text. Hey if you want your own site, contact me. My name is Ali. I'm a webmaster and run a small-time webhosting company.\n\nPeace.\n\nAli\naliunt@yahoo.com
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I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but it could be an alt tag... that's probably what it stands for, alternative representation.
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go to the toolbar at the top of the page, click insert, then special characters, then find it. I hope this helps...have fun with your spade and hearts thing, lol.
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Apart from using the superscript tag mentioned above, I also suggest you using the sort of "codes" in your HTML. For example, you can use:\n\n    <!----beginning of code---->\n    <body>\n    <p>Welcome to the WalkFast & trade; Service!</p>\n    </body>\n    <!-------end of code------->\n\nIn the code, the string "& trade;" stands for the TM symbol. You can use it in a sentence without adding further tags. Note that the semi-colon can be omitted, i.e. "& trade" in fact is equivalent to "& trade;". But if you find not adding the semi-colon doesn't work, (usually it happens when a few symbols of this kind are put together) you can just add back the semi-colons and the problem will go.\n\nFor your convenience, "& copy;" is the copyright symbol © and "& reg;" is the registered symbol ®. Try it on your own HTML page.\n\nActually, instead of typing the description of symbol, the character number can also be used, e.g. "&176;" which is equivalent to "& deg;" means the same thing: degree sign (°). More on that from the source linked below.\n\n***NOTE***  When actually using please remove the little space between the ampersand and the description. It was given here because the codes automatically change into actual symbols when I submit the answer.
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change you body tag from:\n<body style="background: #666666 url(background2.gif) no-repeat bottom righT;">\n\nTo:\n<body style="background: #666666 url(background2.gif) no-repeat fixed bottom right;">\n\nthe two changes are the word right is all lowercase and the word fixed has been added before bottom.  This is telling it to be at the bottom right of the window and not the bottom right of the page.
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Hi, most noteworthy, you need backlinks pointing to your domain.. \n\nOf equal importance, you need to add your description and keyword meta tags(to every page), or it will not get indexed properly on any search engine.
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My dear friend, search engine hits don't come overnight. It takes a lot of time for a website to feature on great seach engines like Yahoo and Google. I own a website that I created at about the end of January this year, and only last week I found it listed at number 29 only after all my keywords have been searched for at once! You have to be patient!\n\nWhen search engines build their powerful databases, they perform what is called indexing. This is done by special software called "bots". They start at the most popular sites on the net, and then follow every possible link on those pages, then all the next possible links, etc. They spider almost the whole web like this.\n\nFor those reasons, Yahoo might not know about you if you don't have a listed website that is linking to you. I would suggest you go and surf for other websites of your kind and add your page to their list of links. (Search engines also judge the popularity of your site by how many other sites are linking to you.)\n\nWhile you are waiting, there are some things you can do to make your website feature quicker. I don't know how familiar you are with HTML meta tags and the search-engine friendliness of your page, but I'll explain it anyway.\n\nMeta tags is ordinary HTML tags that you place inside your website code. They serve the primary purpose of giving information about your website. Some of them give the keywords that you would like your site to be searched for, others provide a short description of your site which will be shown on your listing if you feature on Yahoo. There are countless other meta tags which I have yet to explore, but they make your site a great deal more search-engine friendly.\n\nI have some really good software that helps me make my site more search-engine friendly. It is easy-to-use and completely virus-free (trust me). Best of all, it is free! It contains a complete explanation of meta tags, and also provides tips on selecting the right keywords for your page. It also has a feature that can check your pages for any errors or other things that would make search engines not like you. You can obtain it at http://www.webceo.com/\n\nHope my advice helped...
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Once I discovered this difficulty I stopped using the sitebuilder. It was too irritating.\nMuch easier to use an HTML editor and get axactly what you want without using page wizards, templates, etc.\nSave your pages to your HDD, zap the sitebuilder, start again properly.
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If those indexed pages you know their names, you should create a file with the same name of each of them and include this code in the <head></head> tag in each of them:\n\n<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.dormrugs.com">
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I wonder if people type in the html code directly into the answers - I will test this theory now. \n\nlink typed in www.yahoo.com \nlink typed with http http://www.yahoo.com \nlink copy and pasted in http://au.yahoo.com/ www.yahoo.com\nlink written in HTML <a href='http://www.yahoo.com'>Link to Yahoo</a>\n\nwhen I previewed this, only the website addresses with HTTP:// are highlighted - I guess this is the difference.
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meta tags are used so taht search engines can classify your pages. put it in your <HEAD> tag. and should look something like that:\n <META name="description" content="put some description here for your website">\n<META name="keywords" content="couples of category/keywords separated by commas">
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Make original content that people like and you shouldn't have a problem. The only thing you should modify for the search engines is the meta tags. Javascripts/plugins/scripts are just ignored and it's no big deal. Just dont use flash if you want them to make contextual references.\n\nMarkup softwares wont help. They'll still parse your page in a fraction of a second and extract/order non tagged words.
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It would really depend on how much access you have to the website.  To add keywords, content, descriptions, change titles, etc., you'd need access to the code of each webpage and you'll have to alter the code in an editor, such as Microsoft Frontpage, or Macromedia Dreamweaver.  Adding keywords and other meta tags to each page is pretty easy and can be done with a minimal time investment.\n\nHowever, just adding keywords isn't going to dramatically improve your search engine results.  For that, you'll need to start getting links into and out of your site.\n\nReciprocal links are links that you exchange with a site, meaning you link to a site and they link to you.  These can help you, but reciprocal links are being discounted by Google and other search engines in favor of one way links.\n\nOne way links are definitely preferable to reciprocals.  Outgoing links where you link to another site are good, because the search engines can guage more of what your site is about by analying the links you have that point to other sites.  But be careful about just dumping a bunch of links into a "Links" page with no content or context for the outgoing links.  Build meaningful content around your links, and they will be more important.\n\nAnother point about outgoing links is that you shouldn't worry about "If someone clicks on a link, they'll leave my site."  This is not something to worry about.  You can have links open in new pages, for one.  But mainly, if someone is going to leave your site, they'll do it with or without a link on your page.  At least a link on your page may allow the visitor to return later, rather than them Xing out of their browser.\n\nIncoming one way links are also important, but the same principles apply.  Don't pay for 100's or 1,000's of incoming links from "link farms," or sites that just post links.  You may want to submit your site to any number of free or paid directories that let you include content about your site, and place your site among hundreds of other relevant sites.\n\nThere are tons of ways to make your site more visible.  Just focus on contributing to the web in meaningful ways.  Blogs, forum posts, article submission sites, press release sites, etc., etc., etc. will all help.\n\nPlus, hopefully you haven't overlooked the basic fundamentals, I hope: submitting to the major directories and search engines, like Google, Yahoo!, the Open Directory Project, etc.\n\nWe've done this before and have doubled our visibility in a few weeks, and continue to contribute to the web in ways we feel are meaningful.  It takes some time in the beginning to get going, but the maintenance once you are set up is minimal and interesting.  You have the chance to learn and grow by your contributions.\n\nGood luck, have fun,\n\nForeclosureFish\nhttp://www.foreclosurefish.com
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Metatags and keywords are hardly used by search engines these days to index/find sites for listings.  There might be a couple small ones, but for the most part, that's old school.  I personally wouldn't make the effort...
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I'm not sure exactly but del.icio.us has figured out the tagging equation; maybe something there.  It would be really neat to see some sort of incorporation of del.icio.us into MyYahoo, maybe some sort of ajax widget deal.
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If you  mean on a web page, you would include a meta like this:\n<meta \nhttp-equiv="Content-Type" \ncontent="text/html;  \ncharset=UTF-8">
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You need to set up an anchor tag. You do that using the following code.\n\n<a name="label">Text to be displayed</a>\n\nWhen you want to go to that tag, you use the next bit of code.\n\n<a href="#label">Jump to the text</a>