google and frontpage

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by farhajr, Mar 13, 2008.

  1. #1
    Since I have a FrontPage website, I'm concerned whether Google likes FrontPage or not. Google might consider them 'unprofessional' but if content is king... then it shouldn't matter but, to them, it probably does. Just in case and in order to eliminate their robots from identifing it as FrontPage, I'd like to delete (if possible) all meta tags identifying it as such.

    Currently under <head> I always put the following:

    <title>xxx</title>
    <meta name="description" content="xxx">
    <meta name="keywords" content="xxx">

    But FrontPage also automatically includes the following:

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
    <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
    <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
    <meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="refined 011">
    <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="tlb, default">

    </head>

    Anyone with thoughts on whether this extra stuff is necessary? I'm chicken to try deleting them.

    Or, anyone with thoughts on whether Google may dislike this extra nonsense (if it is nonsense as some have said)? I know nobody knows for sure what Google likes or dislikes, but I'm guessing it could be hurting me to identify my website as FrontPage derived.
     
    farhajr, Mar 13, 2008 IP
  2. Philopoemen

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    #2
    Remove those 4 last lines, they are not required.
     
    Philopoemen, Mar 14, 2008 IP
  3. farhajr

    farhajr Well-Known Member

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    so overall frontpage websites don't do much good on google that is true to some extent then
     
    farhajr, Mar 19, 2008 IP
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    To google it doesn't really matter in what Editor you create your code.
    As long as the code does not contain too many syntax errors - you can as well code in MS Word.
     
    Philopoemen, Mar 19, 2008 IP