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Wired Suzanne

9:39 am on Aug 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

How important are the meta tags? How should I come to the right tags?

Should I have a title like:
"Keyword 1, Keyword 2, keyword 3!
or something like
"Very cheap keyword 1, and keyword 2. Great quality, cheap prices. Keyword 3."

Is it good to use ALL CAPITALS IN THE TITLE TAG or SOME WORDS in the desciption tag?

And how important is the author tag? Is this how Google finds 'similar pages'?

takagi

10:59 am on Aug 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

I could not find a thread explaining which meta tags are ignored by Google and which not. So here is my attempt. Some members here could disagree, so please give your feedback.

Not ignored by Google are meta tags like:


<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 
<meta name="description" content="History of widgets since 1903 bla bla"> 
 
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
 
<meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive">
 
<meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet">
 
<meta-http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.domain.com">

Ignored by Google are meta tags like:


<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-US">
 
<meta name="language" content="en">
 
<meta name="googlebot" content="noimageindex">
 
<meta name="robots" content="noimageindex">
 
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1,KEYWORD1,Keyword1,keyword2, .."> 
 
<meta name="author" content="Author's name">

Please be aware that other search engines much use the info and that Google might change the policy (e.g. for language code).

Google is not case sensitive so capitals in the title won't help in ranking. It might however influence (in a positive or negative way) potential visitors when they see a capitalized title in the SERP.

The 'author' is not used to find 'similar pages'. More likely is common links.

effectua

1:55 pm on Aug 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi takagi,

The example of useful meta tags is helpful, and perhaps you would not mind giving some further details.

For example:
Does the doctype come before any html - even the head? Or should it be omitted?

Should the robots META tag come next? Should it only be in the index page?

Please comment on the order and details here:

<head>

<title>

</title>

</head>

What is the robots.txt file? Please give an example of what it would contain.

fenway

11:54 pm on Aug 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

this might help..

[webmasterworld.com...]

Wired Suzanne

2:27 am on Aug 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Why are some sites indexed with the title (or part of the title) in capitals, if this is ignored by Google?
Will it hurt to use capitals? Or is it safe? I would like my site to come up in the SERPs in capitals too.

Is it important to have the keywords in the title and in the description? Any suggestions about frequency, density, and position of the keywords in the meta tags?

Wired Suzanne

8:06 am on Aug 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Another question:

about the keyword tag. I have a keyphrase: keyword1 keyword2 keyword3.

Do I use: keyword1, keyword2, keyword3
or : keyword1 keyword2 keyword3.
or both?

How important is it?

takagi

8:28 am on Aug 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Why are some sites indexed with the title (or part of the title) in capitals, if this is ignored by Google?

Well, most webmaster are not only writing pages to rank nice in Google's SERPs. Maybe they think it will help in the ranking (now or later), maybe they think it will help to get people to click on the link to their page (having a title in capitals might help to draw attention), maybe they didn't think about Search Engines at all? Who knows?

effectua

10:59 am on Aug 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

fenway, thank you.

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