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There are many things that can be done to an individuals website that will create depth and much more traffic. For example, including links to other websites, linking to other blogs, applying things like google analytics and adsense, using meta tags, allowing youtube videos to be viewed on your site, and much more. This week we signed up for google adsense, and my site was just accepted!! I have not made any money, but I think it is very cool that all I have to do is my homework and possibly make some cash while I am doing it. Also, we were told to use meta tags on our site and so I went about figuring out exactly how to do that. Meta tags are an html code that is hidden from viewers of the site, but is read by web spiders and search engines. These spiders read your meta tags and then use that information to guide people to your site. It is important to use meta tags if you want your site to show up in most search engines and even then the chances of that happening can be questionable because some search engines filter meta tags out. I know we were supposed to put in keyword tags, however, I have to say that keyword meta tags are not the most popular thing out there. It seems that keyword tags really do not raise the popularity of your site and actually are fading out. People would try using the same keyword over and over when creating the meta tag in order to increase popularity. However, spiders now filter out words used more than twice and they are disreguarded. I think discription meta tags are better than keyword tags because it gives more information about what your site is all about. I enjoy that meta tags allow you to track your site and see what kind of response your getting and if it is rising in popularity.

Some negative thoughts on meta keyword tags. http://www.searchnewz.com/topstory/news/sn-2-20060926KeywordMetaTagsPointless.html
Some good information to know about those little creepy crawling robot spiders.
http://www.webhostsonline.com/featuredarticles/webmarketing/robotsagentsandspiders.html