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I'd like to submit some of the entries in my links database to seach engines.

For example, Say I had a Links 2.0 database of NFL teams and I wanted to submit my 'Dallas Cowboys' page, so that anyone who searched for the Cowboys in a search engine found the page and therefore the rest of my site.

Any ideas? Or do I have to do each page individually?

Also any ideas as to how I could create meta tags for that page so that it matched the page content?

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Also any ideas as to how I could create meta tags for that page so that it matched the page content?
Yep try the category meta name and description in Links2 admin panel under add/modify categories.

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The only way you could really do this using the different templates for different categories mod. Meta tags aren't all they are cracked up to be. Only a very few search engines read meta tags most of the top search engines don't. And the directories like Yahoo don't look at them either. The most important thing on your page is the page title, it should be what the page is about not your web site name or company name if you have to have your web site name in the title make it last. Limit your page title to 80 characters.The other important thing is to have the description like you would have in the meta description on the very top part of your page in plain text, it might not be what you want but it will bring search engine traffic.

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Um bobstennett, that is incorrect - as I already said, you can use the category meta name and description.

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Yes I agree with you about being able to use the category meta tags fields but if you do this you would end up with the same page title on every page in every category which would be bad, if you were going to use this method you should add another field in the category db for page title. As far as what I mentioned about most search engines not reading meta tags is true. And the page title is the most impotant thing on your page as far as search engines are concerned. Or another method that would work is to use headers for meta tags and page titles.

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Yes you could create a new field for the title or you could just use:

<title><%category_clean%></title>

(as a quick solution).

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This would not give you a correct title because the title should be what the page is about not the name of the category. Using headers would be a better quick solution.

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Thats why I said "quick solution"

It is better to have a "semi-related" title that none at all.

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I'd like to know if there is a disadvantage with search engine rankings using links as a total website because of it being mostly links to other sites. which some engines penalize highly. ive had a new site under submission for over 6 weeks and still nothing and the ones it did get added to is very poorly ranked. Even though i have a site at www.brfence.net that is 1 the highest ranked among all search engines...yes meta tags do matter right along with the weight of the title.