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Gypsy
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 Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject: Lets talk meta tags..... |
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Ok, now I know there is some debate on the use of meta tags. Some say the search engines don't use them, some say they do. Just to be on the safe side, I always include them on my pages, and it only takes a few minutes to put them in anyways.
Here are the ones I generally use.....
<TITLE>page title</TITLE>
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="description of this page">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="relevant keywords to this page">
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="name of domain, or company name">
<META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="year and either domain name, or company name">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">
<META NAME="DISTRIBUTION" CONTENT="GLOBAL">
<META NAME ="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="15 DAYS">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<META NAME="MSSMARTTAGSPREVENTPARSING" CONTENT="TRUE">
Does anyone else have some other ones that they use? If so, post them, and if they are kind of obscure, give a little explaination of them please. |
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Nelchex
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Been wondering about the use of meta tags myself. I'm not sure what search engines are looking for.
I keep seeing ads for search engine optimation. Is it worth paying someone to do this?
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Gypsy
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| Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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Why pay someone for something you can do yourself?
Sure it takes some practice to get the optimization down pat, but think of all the money you would be saving.  |
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Barron
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: Re: Lets talk meta tags..... |
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| Gypsy wrote: |
<TITLE>page title</TITLE>
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="description of this page">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="relevant keywords to this page">
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="name of domain, or company name">
<META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="year and either domain name, or company name">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">
<META NAME="DISTRIBUTION" CONTENT="GLOBAL">
<META NAME ="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="15 DAYS">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<META NAME="MSSMARTTAGSPREVENTPARSING" CONTENT="TRUE">
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I've been looking forever for a list of meta tags that the browser uses and the ones that the SE's look at, other than the standard ones we all use. Still havent found any lists.
But, for the newbies out there, this is what I know about the metas gypsy listed:
The browser and SE's look at the title tag. The SE's look at the description and keywords. Whether they are used for ranking or not depends on the algorithym.
<TITLE>page title</TITLE>
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="description of this page">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="relevant keywords to this page">
Used for spamming the SE's mostly. I havent test lately, but I have used the author and copyright as searchs on google and got nothing. Rather, if they did show up in the rankings, it was so far down the list I gave up looking for it.
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="name of domain, or company name">
<META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="year and either domain name, or company name">
Nice spiders will look at the robots tag. But, even more spiders will look at, and obey, the robots.txt file. But remember its in reverse. List directories or files you "dont" want spidered. SE's will spider the site if the robots tag is not listed or there is no robots.txt file.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">
I still use this next one behind password protected directories. because http://user=me@mydomain.com used to work in the browsers. IE stopped it in v6, but no clue if Netscape did.
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">
Im dont have any evidence that these next two work.
<META NAME="DISTRIBUTION" CONTENT="GLOBAL">
<META NAME ="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="15 DAYS">
I think these next three are suppose to work in the browser, but I havent seen it yet because my browser settings say to get new versions everytime. Nice proxy servers wont store your pages. I have used this in an attempt to get Google and AOL not to cache pages, I dont think it worked.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
This next one is incorrect, it should be upper and lower case. But, it doesnt work anymore. Microsoft abandoned their idea of stealing keywords.
<META NAME="MSSMARTTAGSPREVENTPARSING" CONTENT="TRUE">
There are metas out there that are suppose to suppress imagetool bars and sidebars in both Netscape and IE, but they dont work either.
Base url tags work, but with the 301 and 302 status code problem its best to link with full urls anyway. And use full urls on your images.
With all that said, if anyone has any new nuggets on what the SE's are doing with metas please share : )
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Drew
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HarryK
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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Good stuff, Barron!
| Quote: | Im dont have any evidence that these next two work.
<META NAME="DISTRIBUTION" CONTENT="GLOBAL">
<META NAME ="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="15 DAYS"> |
I looked into this myself a year ago. The Revisit definitely doesn't work.
As I recall from my digging, one SE that doesn't even exist anymore created that about six years ago and no other SE ever picked up on it.
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