Options

Title

You can set the maximum number of characters that you want displayed in your title. Longer is not necessarily better and a maximum of 128 characters is recommended. Google for instance disregards any characters after the first 64.

You can also prefix each title with specific keywords that may be applicable to your website. This prefix will appear at the front of each title tag that Rapid Meta-Tags generates for you.

You can also set the options to Calculate Title From Whole Page. If this option is selected Rapid Meta-Tags will create the title based on the content of the whole page. For instance if you are using a template Rapid Meta-Tags will create the title from the words used on the whole page even if they are common to every other page.

If the Calculate Title From The Selected Regions Only option is enabled, Rapid Meta-Tags will use the Regions settings that you specify to create the title. Note that if you do not specify regions you will end up with the same result as selecting Calculate Title From Whole Page.

Title Cont.

You can set more options for how you want Rapid Meta-Tags to generate your title tags for you. For instance if you are using H1, H2 etc tags in your web pages Rapid Meta-Tags will only select content found within these tags to generate the title of your web page. This is useful especially if you are using a consistent structure to your web pages.

If you are using CSS and have defined classes that identify the text you use for a title, you can enter them in the Title Classes field. If you are unsure leave this blank.

Once Rapid Meta-Tags has identified which tags to use to generate your title from you can tell Rapid Meta-Tags how to process the Title tag that it generates. The options are self explanatory although if you are in doubt we suggest that you use the default which is Use The First Title Found Then Fill With Keywords.

Keywords

You can set the maximum number of characters that will be used to generate your key word list. Longer is not necessarily better and a maximum of 256 characters is recommended.

The length weighting is an indication of the preference you want Rapid Meta-Tags to have in which order it will list your keywords for you.

NB: note that a keyword may in fact comprise of more than one physical word. For instance koi, koi ponds and ponds are referred to as three distinct and unique keywords.

Slide it to a positive rating for shorter keywords, and to a negative for the longer keywords to be displayed first.

You can tell Rapid Meta-Tags to either use the content of the whole page or to use regions that you specify to generate keywords. We recommend that you use the whole page to generate keywords. This is the default setting.

Description

You can set the maximum number of characters that will be used to generate your Description meta-tag. Longer is not necessarily better and a maximum of between 128 and 256 characters is recommended.

You can also set the Minimum Words number. This is the minimum number of words that Rapid Meta-Tags must find in a sentence before considering it for use as a description tag.

The skip sentences option is used when you want Rapid Meta-Tags to take a clipping for the description from deeper within the page.

If you would like Rapid Meta-Tags to add ellipses () to the end of its generated description, click the checkbox for the Include Ellipses () At The End Of The Description? box.

You can instruct Rapid Meta-Tags to generate the description from specific regions of the page or from the whole page.

Optional Tags

Author

If you would like the pages to reflect you as an author, type your (or the authors) name in here. For advanced users, you can enter a regular expression to identify the Author of a page, and Rapid Meta-Tags will extract the Author from each page.

See Regular Expressions (advanced)

This tag is wholly ignored by search engines, but is used by news readers and other applications.

Robots

Rapid Meta-Tags has provision to handle the Robots meta-tag as well. In the vast majority of cases the defaults set here are appropriate. Search engine robots will index every page and follow all links, unless specifically told not to. If you do not wish your page indexed, or you do not wish the robot to follow any links on your page, you should include a robots meta-tag, and uncheck the relevant checkboxes.

Regions

When selecting words to make up your meta-tags, Rapid Meta-Tags has the ability to limit its word selection to Regions within the web page. You can specify the default Regions setting to use when a file is opened for the first time. You can set the type of Region to open, but may not set which Regions are selected from the Options Dialog. To set which Regions are selected by default, use the Set As Default button in the Regions Navigation Area.

See Regions

Global

These are just the global default program settings that Rapid Meta-Tags uses. They are self explanatory.

Dictionary

The dictionary file is used by Rapid Meta-Tags to exclude words that are not appropriate for the keyword list. This helps to maximise the exposure for your meta-tags for meaningful words, and meaningless words (for search engines anyway) like "and", "the", "of", etc. are omitted from the tags.

See Dictionary