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Pooky

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I'm trying to set it up so search engines see my site properly.

At the moment it just shows up like this:
Code: 
Index of /
/... mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_perl/2.0.5 Perl/v5.10.1 Server at  ...
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I want it to show up with a proper name and description etc.

The thing is the content of the website is not in root.

Do I add meta tags or something to the .htaccess file?
 
I thought you're redirecting the root to the sub-directory until you have content for the root like discussed in the other thread?

index.htm should do fine in the root
 
AcidRaZor said:
I thought you're redirecting the root to the sub-directory until you have content for the root like discussed in the other thread?

index.htm should do fine in the root
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I am doing that. There is no index.htm in the root. Does that mean that I don't need tags there, only in the subdirectory?
 
Pooky said:
I am doing that. There is no index.htm in the root. Does that mean that I don't need tags there, only in the subdirectory?
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No man.

If you do a 301 redirect from your root to the subdirectory, the bots (and anyone else connecting to the root) will immediately be told "yo sucka, go HERE" and it will go THERE.

No need to have index.htm in the root with meta tags to describe your site. The site description/meta tags etc will come from the subdirectory
 
AcidRaZor said:
No man.

If you do a 301 redirect from your root to the subdirectory, the bots (and anyone else connecting to the root) will immediately be told "yo sucka, go HERE" and it will go THERE.

No need to have index.htm in the root with meta tags to describe your site. The site description/meta tags etc will come from the subdirectory
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Ah great! Thanks a lot. I did a bit of reading and it seems META tags are not really that important anymore.

I had them in 'headerinclude' template, but I saw that it wasn't a good idea as them I get the same description/keywords for every page.
 
yea, it depends on what software you use. Meta tags is still relevant, so don't ignore them entirely, however the search engines evolved quite a bit in the last 10 years and they don't put as much emphasis on meta tags anymore as they do on relevant/quality content and links to your site
 
not to run anywhere but use this:

<head>
<title></title>
<meta content="" name="description" />
<meta content="" name="keywords" />
<head>

put this in you head tag
 
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