Keywords play an important role in how search engines rate your site. Often you need to exclude or include words to improve your site's rating.

You can tell MetaTagger about important words through two text files located in the coolmaps directory.

The default location of include.txt and exclude.txt is c:/NetObjects Fusion MX/Components/coolmaps. If you have installed Fusion elsewhere, locate the coolmaps sub directory.

When the MetaTagger is activated it looks for these two files in the same location as the site nod file. If they exist MetaTagger uses them to control how the keywords are generated. If they do not exist, MetaTagger copies the default include.txt and exclude.txt to that location.

The best strategy with MetaTagger is:

• copy the include.txt and exclude.txt to the same location as the site nod file before you publish your site.
• open the copied include.txt in Notepad, add words that must appear as keywords
• open the copied exclude.txt in Notepad, add words that must not appear as keywords*
• activate the MetaTagger in Publish view, Set Up
• publish your site.
• check the keywords
• change the txt files if necessary and re-publish

An alternative strategy is:

• activate MetaTagger
• publish your site, letting the component copy the include.txt and exclude.txt
• look at the keywords MetaTagger has generated
• if needed, open both txt files, make desired changes, and save changes.
• republish site

The benefit of the include.txt and exclude.txt files being located with each nod is that the keyword generation can be site specific.

Be sure to see our MetaTagger Component Spotlight.

*The exclude file already contains many words and characters that are not valuable when used as keywords. It is recommended that you do not delete them.