Comments on META Tags - AddedBytes.com

Comment on META Tags

2007-12-03T07:33:18+00:00

Comment by Dave Child ( http://www.addedbytes.com )

Negative effect? Probably not. Positive effect? Definitely not. Forget the tag and go get yourself some decent links.

Comment on META Tags

2007-12-02T02:42:16+00:00

Comment by Winson Ng ( http://www.swimmingclasses.com.sg )

The first of the examples listed above is completely worthless. If you have it on your site, go and delete it. That tag does nothing more than tell a search engine spider to behave exactly as it normally does. It does not benefit a site, does not get you crawled faster or more often, and will not suddenly make your site more popular than Google.

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I am a beginner of SEO, i have the same situation like Joe who is giving you comment the above. Now i am searching way to let SE to index my site, and my i didn't include the , i wonder i want to add this meta tag or not? is there any negative effect of my side if i added it?

Comment on META Tags

2007-11-08T22:41:24+00:00

Comment by raand ( http://www.purfumeauction.info )

I would like to know what difference would it make by using "echo site url" within the meta tags because one of my website goes with this.

Comment on META Tags

2007-09-27T19:47:25+01:00

Comment by mark rushworth ( http://www.neue.co.uk )

its still true that META description can aid your listing tho not really as part of SEO but replacing the scraped or worse, dmoz description of your site in the serps... tip: get your phone number in there!!!

Comment on META Tags

2007-05-18T22:44:32+01:00

Comment by Loke Hansen ( http://www.SecretCasinoClub.dk )

Just wanted to show a page that creates more than enough meta tags for anyone to want.

The whole thing is made super fast via javascript fyi:

http://www.secretcasinoclub.dk/webmaster.php?aq=meta_generator

Comment on META Tags

2006-07-31T09:45:01+01:00

Comment by Dave Child ( http://www.addedbytes.com )

Joe, the search engine can't see that tag until it after it has visited your site in the first place.

Spiders will index everything they see unless told otherwise, or unless they are unable to. Telling them to do so is redundant.

Comment on META Tags

2006-07-31T03:23:57+01:00

Comment by Joe ( )

I don't agree with this statement:

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The first of the examples listed above is completely worthless. If you have it on your site, go and delete it. That tag does nothing more than tell a search engine spider to behave exactly as it normally does. It does not benefit a site, does not get you crawled faster or more often, and will not suddenly make your site more popular than Google.
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One of my sites was not being indexed by google. It has been months since I submitted it. I decided to add this tag and it was indexed a couple days after.

Comment on META Tags

2004-11-22T17:51:18+00:00

Comment by Dave Child ( http://www.addedbytes.com )

Hi jon.

META http-equiv tags are a way to represent things normally specified with HTTP headers. On some servers you don't have access to headers, so this provides an alternative way to set environmental variables - though should always be avoided when possible.

Meta name tags are "proper" meta tags, providing information about the content of a document, like a description or relevant keywords.

Comment on META Tags

2004-11-21T19:27:34+00:00

Comment by jon power ( http://tragsnart.co.uk )

Could you please explain the difference between meta name and meta http-equiv? Are they interchangeable?

Comment on META Tags

2004-07-15T10:20:35+01:00

Comment by Dave Child ( http://www.addedbytes.com )

Very well spotted! Actually, tht was caused by a modification I made to bBlog to allow for line numbers on code on the page. The code I used escaped the quote marks, and I didn't spot it. It's been resolved now though.

Garrick, personally I prefer no separation between keywords and no repetition, all lower case. I don't suppose it makes a great deal of difference, to be honest - I'd be surprised if engines didn't just strip out commas.