What's your favorite meta tag?

[DylanButler]

someone was asking about meta tags in chat earlier.. which reminded me of my favorite meta tag,

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />

what it does is disable that stupid dialog that shows up in IE when you hover over an image too long.

What's your favorite and why do you use it?

 

[ahtum]

<meta name="Keywords" content="some keywords" />

Because brings me traffic :p

 

[Barrucadu]

<meta http-equiv="description" content="...blah..." />

Because otherwise search engines pluck text from the page to make your sites description.

 

[Noobie]

generator

 

[TwistMyArm]

<meta name="secret-google-pagerank-override" value="9" />

 

[mis_chiff]

Just a noob question (I know how everyone loves those :p )

With the ...blah... meta tag description,
where does it get the content from to display google's ads?
and how relevant would the ads be if it isin't taking site
content?

 

[Redleg]

<meta name="secret-google-pagerank-override" value="9" />

That one is good, but my #1 favorite is:

For visitors:
<meta name="Jedi Mind Trick" content="Click on my ads you will">

For googlebot:
<meta name="Jedi Mind Trick" content="Pagerank 10 this page you will give, and rank very well it shall do">




Other than that I always use the description and keywords tags, not much more...

 

[Barrucadu]

Just a noob question (I know how everyone loves those :p )

With the ...blah... meta tag description,
where does it get the content from to display google's ads?
and how relevant would the ads be if it isin't taking site
content?

...blah... was just filler text, I could have used 3 paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum, but decided not to, lol

 

[beaver6813]

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />

Looks like a very good one, didn't know it existed :P

 

[Joe]

<meta name="revisit" content="2"> <3
and keywords
and description..
lol!

is there a list of all the meta tags somewhere?

Joe

 

[Stephany]

is there a list of all the meta tags somewhere?

Joe

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4

 

[Keral_Patel]

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

I like this one.

 

[Redleg]

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

I always add it myself as well, just to be sure, but according to Google those are the standard settings anyway if no robots meta tag is found, so it's not really needed..

 

[psalzmann]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

For displaying my website to an international audience via UTF-8 language/character support.