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spirelli
03-16-2004, 10:14 PM
"Virtually all search engines ignore meta tags." is this true?

this is according tohttp://www.google-secrets.com/google-secrets-metatags.htm


Should I use meta tags on my new site?
Which ones are 'nessecary' and which ones are not important?+ Why (if you have time to answer that):)
Leonisknovo
03-17-2004, 12:19 AM
I know search engines general ignore *some*
but nearly all engines read one+ meta-tag...

Basic setup of a Page -
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

<title> The Title of the Page </title>
<meta name="Description" content=" Description Goes Here ">
<meta name="Keywords" content=" Keyword List Goes Here ">

<meta name="Generator" content="WordPad">
<meta name="Date" content="2003-07-30">
<meta name="Author" content=" Author Details ">

<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css"> @import url(stylemain.css); </style>

<script type="text/javascript" src="script.js"></script>

</head>

<body>



and also wouldn't hurt to check out these links:

http://www.htmlforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33213
http://www.htmlforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31266
scoutt
03-18-2004, 09:30 AM
importance in order

must have
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

should have
<meta name="Description" content=" Description Goes Here ">
<meta name="Keywords" content=" Keyword List Goes Here ">

only if you want, no effect on SE.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">

you don't need these
<meta name="Generator" content="WordPad">
<meta name="Date" content="2003-07-30">
<meta name="Author" content=" Author Details ">