Dictionary

The Lists

While Rapid Meta-Tags can extract all the words from a piece of text, not all these words are appropriate as keywords. To help the program decide which words it should or should not include, Rapid Meta-Tags maintains two lists of words, an Exclusions list and an Inclusions list. Together, these make up the Dictionary.

Rapid Meta-Tags uses the following rules to decide whether or not to include a word. The first rule that applies to a word is used.

• If the word is in the Exclusions list, it is not included
• If the word is in the Inclusions list, it is included
• If the word is ALL CAPS, it is included, unless all the words in the sentence are All Caps
• If the word is three letters or less, it is not included
• If the word is made up of only special characters (eg &%#@), it is not included
• Otherwise, it is included.

Exclusion List

Any word that should not be included in any keyword lists should be added to this list. These include words like "and", "or", "whenever", etc.

Inclusion List

Any word that would normally not be included because of the rules listed above, but you feel should be included in your keyword lists, should be added to this list. Mainly this is for words of three letters or less, like "pig" or "cat".

Available Dictionaries

Rapid Meta-Tags gets it's dictionaries from one of three places:

Built-In Dictionary

This is a dictionary of the most basic English words. If Rapid Meta-Tags cannot find a dictionary in either of the other two places, this one is used.

Global Dictionary

This dictionary file is saved on your harddrive, and overrides the Build-In Dictionary, whenever a Project Specific Dictionary cannot be found. We understand that every person is different, and has different ideas of what words should or should not be included in the keywords list. Further more, we understand that the Search Engines change their algorithms regularly, and the definition of what constitutes good keywords may change over time. We have included the Global Dictionary to allow you to keep up with the times, and always get the best keywords.

Project Specific Dictionary

You can define a specific dictionary for each project. The dictionary is saved on your harddrive, and the path to the dictionary is saved in the project file. This allows you to have a dictionary for each project so that, for example, a site with content in another language can have its own dictionary of words to include or exclude.

Editing The Dictionaries

(1) File Menu

Save and Close

This option will save the current dictionary as the Project Dictionary. If there is no current Project Dictionary defined, you will be asked for a location to which to save the file; otherwise the current Project Dictionary will be updated with the current settings. The dialog box will be closed after saving.

Save As (And Close)

The same as Save and Close, except that you will always be asked for a location. The current Project Dictionary will be changed to the file you are saving. The dialog box will close after saving.

Save Global Template

This option will save the current dictionary as the Global Dictionary. If there is no current Global Dictionary defined, you will be asked for a location to which to save the file; otherwise the current Global Dictionary will be updated with the current settings. This will not update the current Project Dictionary, if it is defined.

Save Global Template As

The same as Save Global Template, except that you will always be asked for a location. The current Global Dictionary will be changed to the file you are saving.

Close

Closes the dialog box. If you have not saved your changes, they will be lost.

(2) File Source

This will tell you which Dictionary you are editing, and where that dictionary is currently saved. If you are currently editing the Build-In Dictionary, you will be asked to save any changes to a new Project Dictionary. To save your changes as a Global Dictionary, select Save Global Dictionary from the File menu.

(3) Inclusions & (4) Exclusions

These toggle buttons allow you to switch between the Inclusions and Exclusions lists of the current dictionary. You can tell which list you are currently editing by the button that is depressed. Always be sure to check which list you are editing before you make any changes.

(5) The List Display

All the words in the current list are displayed here. Each word has an icon next to it. These are explained below:

	Unedited words currently in the list get this icon
	New words get this icon
	Deleted words get this icon
	Existing words that have been edited get this icon

You may edit an existing word by clicking the already selected word. Words are listed in alphabetical order.

(6) New Words Input Box

Type any words you would like to add to the list into this box. You may add more than one word at a time, but multiple words should be separated by a semi-colon (;). If you try to add a word that is already in the list, it will be ignored. If you add a word that contains an apostrophe, three words will be added, one each for the three types of apostrophe available.

(7) Add Button

Once you have typed the words you want to add to the list into the New Words Input Box, click this button to add them.

(8) Delete Button

Select the words you wish to delete, and then click this button. Deleted words will be marked with the appropriate icon, and will not be saved when you save the Dictionary.

(9) Restore Button

If you have deleted any words by accident, you may restore them by selecting the words, and clicking this button.

(10) Save Button

Click this button to save the current Dictionary. If the current Dictionary is the Build-In Dictionary, you will be asked for a location to save the file, and the saved file will become the Project Dictionary.

(11) Cancel / Close

Click this button to close the dialog box. Any unsaved changes will be lost.