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META tags

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by rjcable, Dec 24, 2004.

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    Do meta tags count for anything on google, or are they just ignored.
     
    rjcable, Dec 24, 2004 IP
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    Only the title tag and to a lesser extent the description tag is important for Google. Some other search engines still may use the keywords tag but best guess is its importance is minor by now.
     
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    The H1 (Header1) tag also counts a lot now!
     
    Blogmaster, Dec 25, 2004 IP
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    The Hx tags are not Meta tags. Meta tags refer to tags in the <head> -- </head> section of a webpage.
     
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    looking at some of the new results, Google occasionally lists the H1 header as the title instead of the meta tag title.
     
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    I was just trying to clarify since the original poster seemed to be asking specifically about meta tags.
     
    minstrel, Dec 25, 2004 IP
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    oic, sorry, bro!
     
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    would you recommend I ingore meta tags, or is it still worthwhile including them, ebven though the advantage in small.
     
    rjcable, Dec 25, 2004 IP
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    I would still recommend that you use <TITLE>, <META name="description"
    content=".......">, and <META NAME="keywords" content=".......">. You might also want to include a language tag like <META http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">

    Do pay special attention to the title tag and don't overdo the others.

    Omit any others you may see -- most don't do anyhting and a couple may actually handicap your site.
     
    minstrel, Dec 25, 2004 IP