Comments on: Useful (and Useless) Meta Tags In SEO and Web Design

By: ITCN

ITCN — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:36:40 +0000

@stock – no, that’s not quite how it works …

By: Stock Portfolio Investor

Stock Portfolio Investor — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:49:18 +0000

I don’t use Nofollow tag on my other pages, so I’m going to loose pagerank of my main page?

By: malcolm coles

malcolm coles — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:27:42 +0000

Keywords are just to depressing to do I find. Don’t you get to that stage on a page, and just give up?!? There are so many other things to fiddle around with …

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:09:16 +0000

Great coming across a site like this. Thank you for sharing this interesting topic.

By: Barry Wise

Barry Wise — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:18:54 +0000

@David Lusch – You can use any keywords that you want in the meta tag; as the article states, it is widely accepted that most search engines, esp. Google, ignore them. You may as well use them, though, because it can’t hurt; but don’t worry about which ones are good or bad.

By: Barry Wise

Barry Wise — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:21:38 +0000

Actually, you don’t need the Content-Type/Character-Set meta tag – there are no required meta tags to create valid HTML. You only need the doctype descriptor.

Search engines ignore the Meta Type, Language and Robots tags.

By: g1smd

g1smd — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:54:53 +0000

You’ll also need the Content-Type/Character-Set meta tag, otherwise your document isn’t a valid HTML document.

It is often a good idea to include data about the Content-Language too.

Other than those, I only use the title and the meta description, and, of course, the links to stylesheets, JavasScript, and favicon in the head section of the file.

The meta description is used to generate the snippet in the SERPs, and that is your best chance at providing text that compels the searcher to click on your link and not on one of the other nine on the page.

I use the robots meta tag only when something should be excluded.

By: David Lusch

David Lusch — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:36:24 +0000

Hi Barry,

Thanks for the article. I realize that the keywords might not be worth much or anything anymore, but I still want to use them. For my overall site description, would the following be considered keyword stuffing? I use almost all of these variations in my site, except for the misspell of my last name.

“David Lusch, David Lush, healing, soul, soul healing, spiritual healing, divine, divine healing, divine healing blessings, healing blessings, spiritual, life guidance, life guidance soul readings, soul readings, spiritual guidance, soul guidance, guidance, bless, blessing, events, classes, transform, life transformation, soul teacher, soul healer, soul communicator, free consultation”

Thanks for your help. I am very grateful for it.

By: Ailments Database

Ailments Database — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:31:43 +0000

Most of the meta tags have no importance.The search Engine goes for only those which got descriptions.

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