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Or are they a waste of time?
Those two are the only that have some value in my view. And I would skip the "robots" meta tag if you only want "index,follow" -- that's the default behavior anyway. Just use it where you want noindex or nofollow for some reason and save the bytes. You can show language in the opening html tag: <html lang="en">
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Im using php on my pages should i change the above tag?
So if you declare one thing and then use a different one, then you may end up with problems...
So if i use the above that will be fine for using html/php pages?
Those two are the only that have some value in my view.
What about
<meta name="description">
<meta name="keywords">
?
There was a recent article from SiteProNews dated April 7, 2006 that provided some interesting insight regarding the Yahoo and MSN search engines when it comes to the two name attributes.
SEP/SEO has never been an area of interest or pursuit for me as a programmer but I am digging in deep now and absorbing as much as possible as I round out a bit more. I'm being very serious about my question here and am asking out of my ignorance on the subject.
I'm just guessing here, but I imagine that adamnichols45 left those out of the original post because they are generally accepted to be valuable from an SEO perspective.
I imagine the response from tedster just focused on the META's that were asked about in the OP. FWIW, I agree with tedster, based on our own work.
"Description" is especially valuable because it can be used in SERP's snippets. "Keywords" has been debatable for a while now, given the widespread abuse of this META, but we still always use it just to cover our bases and help the SE's understand the nature of each individual page. We do what we can do that's within our control, and let the SE's sort it out from there. ;-)
I do feel that they are generally accepted to be valuable from an SEO perspective, Hence the reason for me leaving them out.
