Lots of people nowadays will say that meta tags are a thing of the past. Well I don’t know, but they do no harm to your sites rank. Lets add some in.
<meta name=“title” content=“[site name] - Home Page” />
<meta name=“description” content=“A nice meaty description” />
<meta name=“keywords” content=“Lots of keywords, With comers, OK” />
<meta http-equiv=“content-language” content=“en” />
<meta name=“revisit-after” content=“1 day” />
<meta name=“robots” content=“all”/>
<meta name=“robots” content=“Index,Follow,Archive” />
<meta name=“author” content=“My name” />
<meta http-equiv=“Owner” content=“site name” />
<meta http-equiv=“Reply-to” content=“info@url.com” />
<meta http-equiv=“Copyright” content=“Copyright 2008 “ />
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
3 responses so far ↓
1 Diego Alto // Jan 16, 2008 at 11:08 am
Good point Simon, meta tags are important in SEO, but the perfectionist SEO might be selective about which meta tags to use and leave out the ones that can be considered negligible.
1. You should only use the robots meta tag if you absolutely can’t use the robots.txt file.
2. Robots default to index follow. Re-iterating the default behaviour does not make it better…
3. author, owner, copyright have no SEO value what-so-ever.
4. reply-to can be considered to be a sign that the website is maintained by its owner, but this ‘image’ is best achieved by updating your website. And this meta tag is an easy target for spammers…
2 Simon Bennett // Jan 16, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Thanks for that
Might be wise not to have Reply
3 Website Design Derby // Jun 9, 2008 at 5:39 pm
There are so very few useful metatags, and to be honest as Diego has pointed out, you’ve listed some.
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Tags like these are just pointless code, which adds more bloat for the Bots to read… Complete waste of time!
Again… You cant really tell a bot when to revisit… Infact they visit often enough - depends on how often you update your content is how often they crawl.
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