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**regnik** · 08-08-2008, 06:33 PM

Alright I am having an confusing issue with a website of mine.

To start off many websites online will allow you to analyze your meta tags to preview how a search engine views your site.

Is the site Ive been using to test my meta tags (I have tried others with same results).

http://www.seocentro.com/tools/searc...-analyzer.html

The site that I am having issues with is:
http://www.freeprivateservers.net/

The issue:
<title> as well as my meta tags for keywords and description are not being shown by the analyzer which also means search engines wont be able to view it. As for other sites have populated since Ive placed this online.

I am having the same issue on a sub domain:
http://fallencityms.freeprivateservers.net/

Which I think whatever is causing the issue is the same for both.

Other sub domains work fine such as:
http://hbrebirth.freeprivateservers.net/
http://questscape.freeprivateservers.net/
http://www.freeprivateservers.net/top100/

It is just these 2 sites that the <title> and meta tags wont work.
http://www.freeprivateservers.net/
http://fallencityms.freeprivateservers.net/

I have replaced their index.html's with one of the working sites I have and when analyzing them their title's and meta tags work fine. So it has to be something in the code that I cannot see. Google/Friends werent able to clearly figure it out either.

Any help with this matter is appreciated as for its annoying me quite bad. Thank you in advance.

My current <head> code with meta tags:

Code:

head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>FreePrivateServers.net - Stop wasting money, play MMORPGs free!</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="helbreath, questscape, runescape, maplestory, fallen city, helbreath rebirth, online rpg, free mmorpg, mmorpg, free online games, rpg, mmorpg, online games"/>
<meta name="description" content="Stop wasting your money and play MMORPGs free!" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.freeprivateservers.net/favicon.ico"/>
<link href="default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
body
{ 
background-image: url('images/freeprivateservers.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat
}
.style3 {font-size: 12px}
.style4 {font-size: 24px}
</style>

</head>

**LadynRed** · 08-08-2008, 07:45 PM

First of all the keywords meta tag is pretty much useless as it is largely IGNORED by the bigger search engines. I don't waste any real time on it any more.

My Web Developer toolbar clearly showed me your meta tag information and page title for freeprivateservers.net , so I don't see any problems there..

You do have a LOT of validation errors on that page though. No way that code is XHTML 1.0 Strict, far from it.

Crawl Test results from SEOMoz Tools shows this:

Quote:

Title, Content & Meta Data

Pages with unique title tags: 2
Pages with duplicate title tags: 3
Pages lacking title tags: 0
Pages with unique meta descriptions: 2
Pages with duplicate meta descriptions: 3
Pages lacking meta descriptions: 0

Out of the 5 pages it picked up, you only have 2 with unique title tags, and you have 3 pages where the meta description is duplicated.

Make them all unique and relevant to the content on that page.

**regnik** · 08-08-2008, 07:58 PM

Thank you for the response LadynRed, I will alter each page like you said with unique content as for I hadnt thought of that in such an aspect.

I suppose maybe its just that analyzer tool that isnt picking up on it. I hope... If anyone else has any suggestions Id appreciate it. Only time will tell.

**chrishirst** · 08-09-2008, 04:52 AM

Quote:

If anyone else has any suggestions

Yep I have!

Forget about these ridiculous "spiders view" analyser "tools", they are an utter waste of time and simply have you focusing on the wrong things.

If you want to see what a "spider" will "see" either download WebBug and run that in HTTP/1.1 mode or use View Source in whatever browser you use.
Using "view-source:website_uri" in the address bar still works in some browsers as well.

**seo-neon** · 08-13-2008, 05:37 AM

thanks for the info, i got some problem like that on my site.

**webdesignernew** · 08-18-2008, 04:12 AM

I can see your meta data no problems, using view source is a good way to see how your page is displaying

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