Meta Tags I didn't see before

"rating" and "distribution"

[Monkscuba]

<meta name="rating" content="SAFE FOR KIDS">
<meta name="distribution" content="GLOBAL">

Just found these on a site. I have seen the distribution one a couple of times. Is it useful?

Never seen the "safe for kids" rating meta tag.

Should I be using them?

[Mohamed_E]

The official approach to labelling is that of PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection), check [w3.org...] for more info. I very much doubt that a <meta name="rating" content="SAFE FOR KIDS"> tag will be given any weight by anyone.

[Filipe]

Yeah, there are many META tags, most of which you can probably safely ignore. Aside from Keywords, Description, and Robots most META tags have become redundant, pointless, or just for the most part unsupported by any service or spider.

[pendanticist]

Content rating systems such as Safe Search, Family Friendly Site, Surfing the Net with Kids and The Internet Content Rating Association (et., al.) are mostly for the end user.

The meta tags are used for their own verification system to check for content changes (away from familial) and are not designed as Search Engine enhancements.

Is certain cases folks, meta tags are not dead.

Pendanticist.

[moonbiter]

So does that mean that the Dublin Core [dublincore.org] metadata initiative is dead?

[Oaf357]

Nothing is ever dead. Value of things change often.