Archaic Meta Tags

Which ones are still supported?

[keyplyr]

In earlier posts, the concensus was that the Meta KW tag was not being supported any longer, except for smaller, older engines.

This got me to consider other tags. What's the general opinion on these tags for the index page?

<META NAME="author" CONTENT="blah_blah">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,follow">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="blah_blah">
<META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General">
<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global">
<META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document">
<META NAME="creation-date" CONTENT="blah_blah">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO8859-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="0">

Thanks, D C

[Macguru]

Hi keyplyr,

This one is a must on every page.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="Blah">

IMHO, the rest is just wortless code lines sold by wortless "metatag companies", exept for the robots tag wich can be used for exclusions.

I stick with keywords and description, for pages worth to be optimised.

[IanKelley]

ALL of the meta tags are supported by one browser or another... There are also quite a few more (mostly IE specific) If you have a use for them go for it, the worst that will happen is that certain broswers will ignore them.

[chiyo]

Some tags such as AUTHOR and publication date are used by specialist magazine/article indexes at least.

Some SE's (maybe AV?) say they count metatag desc and keywords in their total analysis of the page though they do not give them any extra relative boost over body text.

Our metatag description seems to turn up on several SERPS. If you want control over descriptions in these engines not a good idea to drop these.

[tedster]

Pragma tags can be helpful in the specific situations where you need them -- not with the SEs, but with frequently updated data. Helpful when you want to ensure the old stuff isn't stuck in the browser cache.

[keyplyr]

Thanks for the info.

Yes, I am keeping the title, description, keywords (cutting them down to under 10), char set declaration, pragma no cache, and the robots noindex (for some) but am getting rid of a lot of dead weight.

I have cable and do not have access to a dial-up, but am attempting to keep pages under 50k, preferrabley under 40. I want every page I build to load well under 10 seconds on a 56kps dial-up connection. I wonder just how many users are still connecting with 28kps?

D C