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I'm trying to build a standard list of meta tags to use on the pages of my site. When inserting meta tags into site pages, which one's are most appropriate and will garner the best result as far as SEO is concerned?
I looked at ALA's meta tags (see below) and figure that if it's good enough for ALA than it's probably good enough for my projects, but what to the good people here say about it?
All advice and guidance greatly appreciated.
Neophyte
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
<meta name="Copyright" content="Client copyright notice" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" />
<meta name="description" content="Description here" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Keyswords here" />
<meta name="Rating" content="General" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 Days" />
<meta name="doc-class" content="Completed" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="Description here" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Keywords here" />
Thanks for your input.
>> The only ones in your list that will do anything helpful are: ... <<
Do you mean that the ones you've indicated - apart from the "Content-Type" - are the only ones that will assist in Search Engine indexing?
Have all the others become deprecated and useless?
Even the "Robots" tag?
I know next to nothing about meta tags so I'm interested to find out as much as possible.
Neophyte
Meta tags and more - from <head> to </head> [webmasterworld.com]
Also, when looking at any other site such as ALA, understand that they may have some met tags that they use for internal reasons that are only specfific to their system, and not the web as a whole.
