Information on Meta tags

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Information on Meta tags

clarifications on meta tags

Pradyumna

9:23 pm on Oct 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi
I would like to ask a some questions in regard to the meta tags.
1. <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOODP" /> what is NOODP in meta tags.
2. How a good meta tags should be constructed. is it just
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type" />
<meta name="description" content
<meta name="keywords" content="
or anything else need to be included.
3. why is <meta xmlns="" used in meta tags does it have any specific significance or anyway different from <meta name=.
4. What is <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" /> what is its relevance.

Please help me by answering this question.

Thanks and Regard
Sriram Murthy Somayajula

tedster

1:45 am on Oct 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

1. NOODP tells the search engines not to use the title in your ODP (DMOZ) listings when they create search results pages.

2. See Meta tags and more - from <head> to </head> [webmasterworld.com]

3. xmlns stands for "XML Name Space" -- in the XHTML DTD it is declared as an attribute of the html element. As I understand it, an xmlns meta tag can then be used to extend the basic xml namespace fixed by the DTD. XML is not my strong area. If you need the details, please ask in our XML Forum [webmasterworld.com]

4. Pragma meta tags give suggestions to the user agent (browser) about caching the document. The meta tag may not control caching on its own -- because the server headers are the senior instruction.