META Tags

[runsmoove]

Anyone have any tips of guides on creating good meta tags that really do help the site out? Want to make sure I do it correctly.

[hadiz]

Try this:

http://www.philb.com/metatag.htm

[W-DOGG]

http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/letters/210.html

this explains about the keywords, index follow and description meta tags

which improves the searchability in spiders such as google

[dDrumz]

Picked up this template while working with some Finnish designer back in '97. Have been using it ever since for all of my sites and works the best. Versitile enough to adapt to Google's thought process. Removed my info for you to use if you want. But honestly, there is no RIGHT answer. You have to find the solution that markets best for you.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">

<title>INSERT TEXT HERE</title>

<meta NAME="Description" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="keywords" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">

<meta name="language" content="en-us">

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="all,index,follow">

<meta name="robots" content="ALL">

<meta name="rating" content="GENERAL">

<meta name="distribution" content="GLOBAL">

<meta name="classification" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="copyright" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="author" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta http-equiv="reply-to" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactcity" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactname" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactnetworkaddress" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactorganization" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactphonenumber" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactstate" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactstreetaddress1" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactstreetaddress2" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactzipcode" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="createdate" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="40;URL=INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="dateoflastmodification" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,no follow">

[still_idiot]

Gryah.

Pick one case and stick with it. Changing case in your markup makes it very ugly (and impossible to validate as XHTML)

[dDrumz]

Was a rush job while on the way home --- hope this helps.

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us">

<title>INSERT TEXT HERE</title>

<meta name="description" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="keywords" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">

<meta name="language" content="en-us">

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

<meta name="robots" content="all">

<meta name="rating" content="general">

<meta name="distribution" content="global">

<meta name="classification" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="copyright" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="author" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta http-equiv="reply-to" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactcity" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactname" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactnetworkaddress" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactorganization" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactphonenumber" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactstate" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactstreetaddress1" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactstreetaddress2" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="contactzipcode" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="createdate" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="40;url=INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="dateoflastmodification" content="INSERT TEXT HERE">

<meta name="robots" content="index,no follow">

[still_idiot]

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="40;url=INSERT TEXT HERE">

Is going to make your page refresh with the "url", why would you want that in every page?

[FiREFLi]

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="40;url=INSERT TEXT HERE">

Is going to make your page refresh with the "url", why would you want that in every page?

585041366[/snapback]

A good point.

WOWOW!! :blink: That's the biggest list of meta tags ever. I've only ever used like 4; keywords,author,the index one and someother one. Oh, and the refresh one, but that's different.

I'll be sure to stick this in my sites from now on thanks! :happy:

Is the 15 day spider timer optimised for google or something? Couldn't I just stick a 1 in there? (or a 0 :huh: )

Also, what's the point in all the address stuff? Does that help google (and of course any other search engines of equal importance *ahem* :laugh: )

Answers on a postcard please... Thank you! :yes:

[dDrumz]

Your URL would be the page you are inserting the tags in. Include this if you are going to be updating the pages on a constant basis (i.e. job opportunities). If someone has the IE settings at default of "Automatically check for newer pages" then your updated page will not show up due to IE caching it. The user would have to close their browser and re-visit the page. If your user visits a page with this meta tag, then the page will refesh at whatever time you set it and the user would see the changes in real time.

It is smart to use it on the Index page if any.

[Michael_C]

Gryah.

Pick one case and stick with it. Changing case in your markup makes it very ugly (and impossible to validate as XHTML)

585037831[/snapback]

Not to mention uppercase markup is illegal.

[+mrbester MVC]

And lest we forget:

<meta http-equiv="content-script-type" content="text/javascript" />

<meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css" />

Don't use meta refresh unless you are doing some kind of progress feedback. Auto reloading is a pain should it do so halfway through reading a page, breaks accessibility guidelines and can be switched off client-side...

Use only ONE robots tag. Either it indexes or desn't, follows or doesn't.

Don't forget about attempting to kill caching as well if you need it.

Adding all that address crap probably won't make a difference, but you could use Dublin Core and GeoURL stuff