meta tags tool at About.com
The jury is out if metatags mean anything to search bots anymore
Here is a "fill in the form" meta tag generator at Jenn Kyrnin's About.com site
Besides the usual title, keywords and description also has options for name, email, copyright and reload (meta refresh/redirect)
ariyes posted this at 12:59 — 29th June 2008.
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META TAG is not working Now a days.
decibel.places posted this at 15:08 — 29th June 2008.
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not sure what you mean by not working
you mean a lot of search engine algorithms disregard it? probably true
but most SEO experts recommend still using keywords and description meta tags
Megan posted this at 15:57 — 29th June 2008.
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I wouldn't say the jury is out at all. The jury is in agreement:
Title - very, very important (but I still have a hard time thinking of this as a meta tag for some reason)
Keywords - might matter *a little bit* in yahoo and some other engines but largely not useful at all
Description - might be used in actual serp listings and might be helpful to get users to click your listing. On the other hand, if you don`t have one the SE will get one for you from the page text.
Copyright, author etc. - not sure that these are ever used for anything.
Robots, refresh, cache - these actually do something
Charset - useful to ensure your special characters get rendered properly.
Expires - might be useful but again, I`m not sure it`s ever actually used for anything. I`ve read that it might help with caching but most user agents and search engines ignore it.
Methinks this aboot.com person doesn`t really know what she`s talking about...
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decibel.places posted this at 16:14 — 29th June 2008.
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Megan,
Yes, I usually hand write my meta tags or more often use the Drupal module
I think Jenn's About.com site is slightly orientated to beginners and she is trying to at least get some meta tags going without explaining the intricacies of charset etc
Did you see the link at the bottom Magic with Meta Tags which does go into more depth?
Jenn has been coding websites as long as you and I and I believe she knows what she's doing
I posted the link here as a useful tool to generate some basic metatags.
Megan posted this at 15:37 — 30th June 2008.
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Did you see the link at the bottom Magic with Meta Tags which does go into more depth?
That article implies that meta keywords helps improve rankings which is flat out wrong (unless it was written years and years ago, in which case it should be marked as outdated). Spreading information like this just leads to more confusion and the continued problem we have in educating people about SEO.
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greg posted this at 16:20 — 29th June 2008.
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Slightly off-topic..
I've read some helpful tutorials on about.com in the past, but now I know PHP on a much higher level, I can pick faults all the time with their scripts.
I once emailed the author of one script to tell them a bit of code in a tutorial they had was extremely unsecure.
Suggested they state it's not secure or make the code secure, like Tizag does at the bottom always says this is basic script, not secure blah.
I got no reply.
(Maybe they changed the script)
decibel.places posted this at 16:31 — 29th June 2008.
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Jenn Kyrnin's About.com site does not cover PHP
It is specific to HTML and CSS with sometimes a little JavaScript
thrown in
About.com segments things and assigns different "expert" guides to cover different areas of expertise
IMO Jenn's credentials are excellent
I found her site when I could not locate a certain syntactical reference I needed on w3schools but Jenn's site had it
I have found Jenn to be responsive to contact, and she will often send a cordial thank you for a cogent comment posted on her site
greg posted this at 16:48 — 29th June 2008.
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It is specific to HTML and CSS with sometimes a little JavaScript
thrown in
Well perhaps Jenn Kyrnin doesn't cover PHP, but about.com have a subdomain dedicated to PHP stuff.
http://php.about.com/
Megan posted this at 15:51 — 30th June 2008.
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I usualy find their content to be inadequate, even on topics I don't know a lot about. I usually avoid clicking on their links on the serps if I can help it.
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pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 16:43 — 29th June 2008.
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The only thing I would say about this is that I would absolutely not put my email address in a meta tag. I don't think I could make it any easier for bots to find it.
decibel.places posted this at 17:02 — 29th June 2008.
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most of us have multiple email addresses for different purposes
my "public" email address is [email protected] and I expect a lot of spam - Yahoo has workable filters and multiple delete tools etc
I have other emails I use professionally or personally
one might want to include a "public" email in a meta tag for maximum exposure, realizing it will also attract a lot of dross
webwiz posted this at 04:03 — 30th June 2008.
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Some of those META tags Jenn mentions may not be used on the web, but are useful for saved pages when the HTTP headers are not available. I'm thinking about CHARSET in particular.
The EXPIRES information should be coming from the HTTP headers, in which case the META will be ignored.
The REFRESH is useful when testing in a local environment, as you can leave the browser window open while making changes to the document, and the changes will show up within the time you specify - every ten seconds, say.
Cordially, David
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Digitoko posted this at 07:25 — 9th July 2008.
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I think meta tags i always work but now on these days CHARSET in particular. Or you can use mail address in meta tags
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