TOP 30 SEARCH ENGINES
ADDITIONAL SEARCH ENGINES
Some engines recognize the following META tags. All META tags should appear before the </HEAD> tag on your HTML page. Do not exceed the CONTENT limits!
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="up to 200 characters">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="up to 1000 characters">
NOTE: If a keyword is repeated 7 times or more, ALL keywords are ignored. If using frames or Java, use META tags if the search engine supports them, because just using the first 200 characters on this type of webpage will most likely produce useless information.
| Search engine | Criteria used in searches |
| Alta Vista | URL, title, first 200 characters after the BODY tag, or META |
| Excite | URL, title, entire page is looked at, no META tags, "Context" search with preference given to punctuated sentences |
| Infoseek | URL, title, first 200 characters after the BODY tag, or META. |
| Inktomi | URL, title, first 200 characters after the BODY tag, or META. |
| Lycos | URL, title, first 200 characters, if the title or URL contains an equals sign (=), a dollar sign ($), or a question mark (?), the site will NOT be listed. |
| Yahoo | URL, title, first 25 words from top of page, when submitting 25 words or less |
| Webcrawler | URL, title, first 200 characters |