Meta missing

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Thibaut, Apr 16, 2008.

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    Hello friends,

    in term of pure SEO, what could be the consequences of not having the following non-critical META in my home page:

    - language
    - keywords
    - robots

    My own interpretation is that since RFC advise their use, I guess it should be better to use them as well.

    Regards
    Thibaut
     
    Thibaut, Apr 16, 2008 IP
  2. Dan Schulz

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    • language can be handled by the lang (or xml:lang) attribute in the HTML element
    • keywords may be useful by some internal site searching scripts and some minor search engines, but is otherwise practically useless these days
    • robots belongs in a robots.txt file (unless you need to block a particular page - then it can be used as a META tag)
     
    Dan Schulz, Apr 16, 2008 IP