Meta Tags

Sabre · Mar 11, 2005

Ive had my site for 2/3 months now, and google can never find me meta tags...

<html>
<META

content="The UnOfficial MyChemicalRomance Fansite"

name=description>

<META

content="mychemicalromance, mychemicalromance.org, mychemical, chemicalromance"

name=keywords>

<META content=My Chemical Romance . Org name=author>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<head>
<title>
<||--:: My Chemical Romance .ORG ::--||>
</title>

<?
require("functions.php");
print_style("chemical");
?>

</head>
<body>

Are these incorrect, or is Google just being Google?

Scott · Mar 12, 2005

vip-ip · Mar 12, 2005

This is all I have, I don't even know what some META tags do

))))

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="en-us">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; win-1251">
<META NAME="title" CONTENT="DUI / DWI Info - Process Your Drunk Driving Offense Record The Right Way!">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" content="cache">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="en">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Our book will teach you how to save money and minimize the impact of your DUI/DWI offense, so you can enjoy your life free from worry!">
<META NAME="abstract" CONTENT="Info Associates">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="dui,dwi,report,clear record,minimize record,drive,driver,driving,laws,drinking,penalty">
<META NAME="author" CONTENT="Ryann Mitchell">
<META NAME="publisher" CONTENT="Vasiliy Blagodarskiy">
<META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright (c) 2005 DUI-MANUAL.COM">
<META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General">
<META NAME="page-topic" CONTENT="Legal">
<META NAME="creation_Date" CONTENT="March 1, 2005">
<META NAME="expires" CONTENT="3 days">

<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="3 days">
<META NAME="doc-rights" CONTENT="Copywritten work">
<META NAME="doc-class" CONTENT="Completed">
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true">

CrazyTech · Mar 12, 2005

Go with either of the above - it looks to me as if you just have things in the wrong order.

Redleg · Mar 12, 2005

All you really need is:
most important meta:
<meta name="description" content="Short description w/keywords">

Nice to have, but not many SEs use it:
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3....">

Not really necesarry, but..... :
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

Sabre · Mar 12, 2005

OK, thanks guys! :D

Lyte · Mar 12, 2005

Scott said:
<meta name="robot" content="ALL">
<meta name="return-after" content="1 day">
<meta name="rating" content="general">

What do these tags do??

Thanks!

Lyte

identity_00 · Mar 13, 2005

first one tells the spider that it can crawl all content.
second tells the spider when to return and how often.
third tells the spider the type of site I believe.

Sabre · Mar 13, 2005

identity_00 said:
first one tells the spider that it can crawl all content.
second tells the spider when to return and how often.
third tells the spider the type of site I believe.

I think thats pretty much spot on!

Redleg · Mar 13, 2005

It should be "robots", not "robot"...

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html

And the "return-after" and "rating" doesn't really do much more than just taking up space, since most spiders/SEs ignores them anyway...

Sabre · Mar 13, 2005

So, I need to change it to 'robots'?

Redleg · Mar 13, 2005

Sabre Hosting said:
So, I need to change it to 'robots'?

Yes..

<meta name="robots" content="follow,index">
It's not really needed, since that's the default settings for most spiders, but it doesn't hurt to add it either..

Sabre · Mar 13, 2005

Thanks, ill edit it now! :tu:

Thanks everyone for your help!

Lyte · Mar 13, 2005

Great info guys... thanks! :tu:

So, what do these ones mean? Are they important??

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">

Is there value in putting typos in the meta keyword section??

Thanks again!

Lyte

Redleg · Mar 13, 2005

Lyte said:
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
So, what do these ones mean? Are they important??

No..

Is there value in putting typos in the meta keyword section??

Very few SEs pays any attention to the keywords meta tag.
But it doesn't hurt to put typos in there since they may put some (tiny) weight on them..

Lyte · Mar 14, 2005

Redleg said:
No..

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

Okay, but I still wanna know what they mean! :hehe:

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