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I know that search engines generally look at the TITLE of a page, and to some varying extent the META Keywords and Description.
I also know there are specific robot based commands to tell robots how often to visit (or throttle their visits back anyway) and what to index and not index.
What about more unusual META information such as the following?
Code:
<meta name="title" content=”Page Title Keyword Phrase” /> <link rel="top" href="index.html" title="Keyword Phrase" />
In the first instance I have seen this used to echo the actual TITLE attribute and I'm curious as to whether this gives any kind of boost to the ranking for that particular keyword phrase in it's content.
In the second example I wondered whether a spider will follow the LINK and interpret it as a normal hyperlink, using the Title attribute as the link text?
Look forward to your views.
Take a look at the meta tags in the source code for this page. You really do not need more.
yes, i've also always gone by the assumption you don't really need more than TITLE, Keywords and Description (plus others as needed like Robots etc).
what i wonder though, is has anyone any evidence that the tags in my example don't have some effect?
for instance would an otherwise orphaned page be spidered if a LINK tag pointed to it?
it's really a matter of curiousity. i'd do a test but obviously i want to know if anyone else has before i set one up. not reinventing the wheel and all that ;-)
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There is no metadata title. There used to be an http-equiv tag named title but it has been obsolete for quite some time.
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