Hi! I never used meta content, language and others... Should I use it ? Google look at those metas? How it's going to help me ? Thanks! Guy.
I would use it just to be safe. it doesn't mean that google will use it, but for general search engine goodness, it's a wise idea to load as much as you need in the meta fields.
I noticed that google uses the description @ my site. Does anyone know how the author tag is used in search?
Not really - by doing that, what you're doing is increasing the amount of redundant crap the spider has to wade through to find your content - and a lot of it is totally useless. Not at all by regular search engines, AFAIK. The ONLY required tag is <TITLE>. Recommended tags are: 1. a valid DOCTYPE declaration 2. <meta name="description" content=" 3. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> 4. <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> 5. <meta NAME="keywords" content=" (mostly ignored but may be used by some directories)
I also set a rating for the content, some directories/SEs use that for rating which can come in useful.
Go to http://www.icra.org and http://www.classify.org and answer the questions - they'll give you a code that looks something like: <meta http-equiv="pics-label" content="(pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://www.psychlinks.ca" r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.ICRA.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://www.psychlinks.ca" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))"> <meta http-equiv="pics-label" content="(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true for "http://www.psychlinks.ca" r (SS~~000 1 SS~~002 3 SS~~003 3))" /> Code (markup):