I think meta tags i always

Digitoko — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:25:44 +0000

I think meta tags i always work but now on these days CHARSET in particular. Or you can use mail address in meta tags

I usualy find their content

Megan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:51:02 +0000

I usualy find their content to be inadequate, even on topics I don't know a lot about. I usually avoid clicking on their links on the serps if I can help it.

netsperience wrote: I think

Megan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:37:53 +0000

netsperience wrote:

I think Jenn's About.com site is slightly orientated to beginners and she is trying to at least get some meta tags going without explaining the intricacies of charset etc

Did you see the link at the bottom Magic with Meta Tags which does go into more depth?

That article implies that meta keywords helps improve rankings which is flat out wrong (unless it was written years and years ago, in which case it should be marked as outdated). Spreading information like this just leads to more confusion and the continued problem we have in educating people about SEO.

Some of those META tags Jenn

webwiz — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:03:23 +0000

Some of those META tags Jenn mentions may not be used on the web, but are useful for saved pages when the HTTP headers are not available. I'm thinking about CHARSET in particular.

The EXPIRES information should be coming from the HTTP headers, in which case the META will be ignored.

The REFRESH is useful when testing in a local environment, as you can leave the browser window open while making changes to the document, and the changes will show up within the time you specify - every ten seconds, say.

most of us have multiple

netsperience — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:02:11 +0000

most of us have multiple email addresses for different purposes

my "public" email address is rgoya@yahoo.com and I expect a lot of spam - Yahoo has workable filters and multiple delete tools etc

I have other emails I use professionally or personally

one might want to include a "public" email in a meta tag for maximum exposure, realizing it will also attract a lot of dross

netsperience wrote: Jenn

greg — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:48:51 +0000

netsperience wrote:

Jenn Kyrnin's About.com site does not cover PHP

It is specific to HTML and CSS with sometimes a little JavaScript
thrown in

Well perhaps Jenn Kyrnin doesn't cover PHP, but about.com have a subdomain dedicated to PHP stuff.

http://php.about.com/

The only thing I would say

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:43:12 +0000

The only thing I would say about this is that I would absolutely not put my email address in a meta tag. I don't think I could make it any easier for bots to find it.

Jenn Kyrnin's About.com site

netsperience — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:31:42 +0000

Jenn Kyrnin's About.com site does not cover PHP

It is specific to HTML and CSS with sometimes a little JavaScript
thrown in

About.com segments things and assigns different "expert" guides to cover different areas of expertise

IMO Jenn's credentials are excellent

I found her site when I could not locate a certain syntactical reference I needed on w3schools but Jenn's site had it

I have found Jenn to be responsive to contact, and she will often send a cordial thank you for a cogent comment posted on her site

Slightly off-topic.. I've

greg — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:20:26 +0000

Slightly off-topic..
I've read some helpful tutorials on about.com in the past, but now I know PHP on a much higher level, I can pick faults all the time with their scripts.

I once emailed the author of one script to tell them a bit of code in a tutorial they had was extremely unsecure.
Suggested they state it's not secure or make the code secure, like Tizag does at the bottom always says this is basic script, not secure blah.

I got no reply.
(Maybe they changed the script)

Megan, Yes, I usually hand

netsperience — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:14:59 +0000

Megan,

Yes, I usually hand write my meta tags or more often use the Drupal module

I think Jenn's About.com site is slightly orientated to beginners and she is trying to at least get some meta tags going without explaining the intricacies of charset etc

Did you see the link at the bottom Magic with Meta Tags which does go into more depth?

Jenn has been coding websites as long as you and I and I believe she knows what she's doing

I posted the link here as a useful tool to generate some basic metatags.