GlynMusica - 2:43 pm on Nov 18, 2002 (gmt 0)

Meta tags work in my equation to do some early page branding. As to the overall impact they have in the search engines I think that they work in favour of the site the lower down the regional SE tree you go. In that your Googles might ignore Metas completely but your specialsearchfrance.com that uses a slightly more dated technology will place more importance on them. Problem with the gloabalised search is that a lot of other minor but still siginificant (a lead is a lead is a lead) search engines get tarred with the same brush.

I'll use Metas until such time as one of the target engines tells me that they will penalise a site that uses them. I'm no meta tag purist but these are tags given *for optimisation* so why would I not use them?

Piskie, one of us missed the plot, I thought the guy posting was using the code to stop lazy coders nicking his tags. The fact is that the lazy coders would not have used this code so I am a little lost why you think they would work it out automatically.

If (original poster) the code sorts you out you might use it, but then one post from GoogleGuy seems to send the fear (withnail and I) in to webmasters and this seems a little bit irrational!

Then again it all depends on who is sending you the traffic, and that's one for your log files.

Have fun.

Glyn.