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dipat

2006-09-08, 6:33 pm

what is location of first head section in publisher?

DavidF

2006-09-12, 10:48 pm

You can't access the head section in Publisher, without opening the HTML
code in NotePad or some other html code editor, after it is produced by
Publish to the Web in 2003, or Save As a Web Page in Pub 2000. Of course any
change you made in the code would not be saved in the Publisher file, so
when you did make changes and created new HTML code, you would have to again
edit the code...not very practical.

If you are trying to use a JavaScript code snippet or otherwise, that
requires part of the code to be inserted in the head, then just try
inserting it using the insert html code fragment tool anywhere on your page.
Many times I have found that the code snippet will work anyway...try it, and
if it doesn't work, then find another code snippet.

DavidF

"dipat" <dipat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> what is location of first head section in publisher?

dipat

2006-09-12, 10:48 pm

David, thanks. The reason I need to know is so that Google can verify. The
meta tag is on the page but Google says it's in the wrong place. Is there a
specific place on the publisher page to put the tag?
Mike

"DavidF" wrote:

> You can't access the head section in Publisher, without opening the HTML
> code in NotePad or some other html code editor, after it is produced by
> Publish to the Web in 2003, or Save As a Web Page in Pub 2000. Of course any
> change you made in the code would not be saved in the Publisher file, so
> when you did make changes and created new HTML code, you would have to again
> edit the code...not very practical.
>
> If you are trying to use a JavaScript code snippet or otherwise, that
> requires part of the code to be inserted in the head, then just try
> inserting it using the insert html code fragment tool anywhere on your page.
> Many times I have found that the code snippet will work anyway...try it, and
> if it doesn't work, then find another code snippet.
>
> DavidF
>
> "dipat" <dipat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:424C8659-6EF0-4589-9E06-56D780DF0EB4@microsoft.com...
>
>
>

DavidF

2006-09-12, 10:48 pm

Mike,

You are limited to Tools > Web Page Options and a description and keywords
under Search Engine information (with Pub 2003). I don't know if you can use
the insert HTML code fragment to place anything else in the Pub HTML that
would help or not...probably not. And as I said before, you could open the
HTML code that you generate with Publisher in NotePad, and add whatever code
you want, but you would have to redo it each time you made a change in the
Pub doc and generated new HTML. If you want to do more, then perhaps look to
other programs such as FrontPage where you do have access to the all the
code. Publisher does have its limitations...

IMHO, I wouldn't obsess about it. I have found from my personal experience
that content is king, when it comes to search engines. Google doesn't rank
my home page anywhere near the top ten, but I have a couple sections of my
site that are always number one, because the content is unique. I have read
a lot of articles about optimizing your site for search engines, and have
tried to incorporate a lot of those ideas. Some may have even helped, but I
decided that there are a lot of people out there a whole lot smarter than I
am that their daily jobs are trying to second guess the search engines, and
optimizing their web sites in order to get higher rankings. Heck, I am
approached by email or phone almost every day by some outfit that promises
to put my site at number one!!! If that were true, then how can they all
make that promise...to everyone? And how can I expect to do a better job of
optimizing a site than the professionals?

So now I do the basics, and the search engines find my site. I exchange
links with some other sites, and I focus most of my efforts on producing
good content, and on directing people to my site through print medium,
direct mail, advertising...every piece of marketing material I use, directs
people to my website.

That's my 2 cents worth...

DavidF

"dipat" <dipat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> David, thanks. The reason I need to know is so that Google can verify.
> The
> meta tag is on the page but Google says it's in the wrong place. Is there
> a
> specific place on the publisher page to put the tag?
> Mike
>
> "DavidF" wrote:
>

dipat

2006-09-12, 10:48 pm

Thanks, David. You're right. I think I'll just let things land as they
might. I've submitted, so we'll just see where it shows up. Again, thanks

Mike

"DavidF" wrote:

> Mike,
>
> You are limited to Tools > Web Page Options and a description and keywords
> under Search Engine information (with Pub 2003). I don't know if you can use
> the insert HTML code fragment to place anything else in the Pub HTML that
> would help or not...probably not. And as I said before, you could open the
> HTML code that you generate with Publisher in NotePad, and add whatever code
> you want, but you would have to redo it each time you made a change in the
> Pub doc and generated new HTML. If you want to do more, then perhaps look to
> other programs such as FrontPage where you do have access to the all the
> code. Publisher does have its limitations...
>
> IMHO, I wouldn't obsess about it. I have found from my personal experience
> that content is king, when it comes to search engines. Google doesn't rank
> my home page anywhere near the top ten, but I have a couple sections of my
> site that are always number one, because the content is unique. I have read
> a lot of articles about optimizing your site for search engines, and have
> tried to incorporate a lot of those ideas. Some may have even helped, but I
> decided that there are a lot of people out there a whole lot smarter than I
> am that their daily jobs are trying to second guess the search engines, and
> optimizing their web sites in order to get higher rankings. Heck, I am
> approached by email or phone almost every day by some outfit that promises
> to put my site at number one!!! If that were true, then how can they all
> make that promise...to everyone? And how can I expect to do a better job of
> optimizing a site than the professionals?
>
> So now I do the basics, and the search engines find my site. I exchange
> links with some other sites, and I focus most of my efforts on producing
> good content, and on directing people to my site through print medium,
> direct mail, advertising...every piece of marketing material I use, directs
> people to my website.
>
> That's my 2 cents worth...
>
> DavidF
>
> "dipat" <dipat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:69BAB58B-F280-4D20-9206-DA7626F2D4B0@microsoft.com...
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