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Metadata Generator

 

 

 
Contact Information

More information or alternate content format, contact:

COT
Development Branch V
(502) 564-1404
Jane Justice

 
Metadata Generator

This tool is designed to create metadata for Commonwealth of Kentucky webmasters.  Through the use of effective metadata, your page will be better classified and therefore easier to find.  Fill out as many fields as you can.  This page requires a JavaScript-enabled browser

 
- Required

The Title is the most important tag.  Most search engines use Title metadata in search rankings, and Title metadata is the first information the user sees in the search results.  A good title is concise, descriptive, and generally unique to one page.  To comply with the 7020 - Internet/World Wide Web Design and Publishing standard, the metadata generator will supply a "Kentucky: " to precede the Title.  Avoid other abbreviations and jargon.

 
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Search engines often display Description metadata following Title metadata.  The Description should contain a short summary of the page’s content and purpose.  Use complete sentences and avoid jargon.  Limit to 200 characters.

 
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Search engines use Keywords metadata to help determine the page's search ranking.  Keywords can be words or phrases.  Identify the most important keywords first, followed by any jargon, synonyms, alternate spellings, or abbreviations someone might use in a search for the information on this page.  Separate the keywords with commas.  Repeating keywords unnecessarily may actually degrade the search ranking.  As a rule, use a keyword no more than 6 times in this tag.  Limit to 1000 characters or less.

 
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The Language metadata indicates in which language the page's content is written.  Defaults to EN-US (English-United States).

 
Robots

The Index/No Index directive specifies whether an indexing robot should or should not index the page. 

The Follow/No Follow directive specifies whether a robot is to follow or not follow the links on the page. 

Some search engines (e.g. Google) can display pages from their archived cache allowing a version of the page to display when it is not available due to technical difficulties or because it is has been moved or removed. 

By default your page will be indexed, archived and the links followed. 

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Date Created

This metatag indicates the day the web page is created or last updated.

 
Government Type

Choose whether the web page is state or local.  Defaults to "State".

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Agency Name

Agency Name metadata allows for consistent retrieval when searching for the organization name.  The elements go from the highest to lowest.  The first element defaults to "Commonwealth of Kentucky".  Use only as many elements as is necessary to identify the agency or program.  Do not use abbreviations (ex. Use "Department" not "Dept.").

Subject Tree

This is a controlled vocabulary list designed to place the page in pre-selected subject categories.  Choose one or more Subjects that describe the content and/or purpose of the page.  Only subjects listed here may be used in this field. 

There are four levels in the subject tree.  Use only the number of levels that best categorize the page; it is not necessary to use all four levels each time.  Select multiple subjects for each page, if necessary.  Be as specific as possible. 

You can add your selection at any level of the tree by pressing the "Add Subject" button.

The "Suggest Subjects" button searches the Subject Tree for words you have entered in the Keywords field.  If there are a lot of Keywords, the process may take awhile.



 

The Revisit-After metadata indicates to search engines when to index the site again.  This should be used in pages with frequently changing content.

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The Author metadata identifies the creator of the web page.  It's recommended that the agency or program name, and a generic email address (i.e. generic.email@ky.gov) be used instead of an individual's name and email address.


(e.g. COT (cot@ky.gov))
 

When all fields are completed, press the "Create Metadata" button.  Then simply copy the following lines of code and paste them between the <head> and </head> tags at the top of your HTML document.  Some of these new tags may duplicate metadata that already exists in the web page.  Check existing metadata to avoid unnecessary duplication.

The character set is created automatically and defaults to ISO-8859-1.

 
Published: 05/14/2004 [med]

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