Manually add words into the index

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There is often the need to add words into the index that are not present in the text of the page itself. By doing this it is possible to have search matches on commonly misspelt words and synonyms of words that do appear on the page. Watch the search log closely in order to identify the common words that people are searching for which generate 0 results. These words may be candidates for manual insertion into the index.

To add words into the index for a certain page, you need to create a "ZOOMWORDS" meta-tag in the HTML header of that page. For example, on a page about music, some additional words could be added. It is assumed that these words are not already in the text of the page.

<meta name="ZOOMWORDS" content="melody, mellody, tune, song">

 
The standard <meta name="keywords"> tag is supported and can also be used. However, note that some external Internet search engines (such as Google) ignore or even penalise a page’s rank if they find what they consider to be excessively repeated or misspellings, so the ZOOMWORDS meta-tag is provided to allow you to ‘force’ page ranks internally, within your own website, without affecting external search engines.

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Note: You must check the “Meta keywords” box on the “Indexing Options” tab of the Configuration window in order to enable support for both ZOOMWORDS and Meta keywords.