Meta Tags are crucial as they enable you to define your page on AltaVista and to ensure that the correct description is used. Submitting You only need to give the location of the site when adding a URL and the content will be visited and reviewed by a spider from Excite. An Excite 'theme' and rating is given to the site and to your site. You can then find your site using appropriate keywords. Keywords Excite summarizes your page.
Punctuated sentences are preferred.
The summary is processed by 'concept based' software that looks for the page's dominant theme. Your page is indexed by trying to match keywords to your theme. Excite believes that summarizing the entire page to get a general 'feel' of the theme will offer more accurate results. You can not influence this behavior as with Excite you may not create a separate description of your web site. Every word you expect users to search for must be appropriate to the theme the summary of the html of your site generates.