Quick Question About The "meta name="author"" Tab - Do I Need It?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by bad_bob00, Nov 10, 2009.

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    Hi,

    On my website I have a line at the top in the meta tags saying the following:

    <meta name="author" content="Dave Smith/ Email: /" />

    I'm just wondering, do I need this line? And also, can I replace the @ with the word "at" instead, as I'm guessing if I was to include my email address then some kind of e-mail harvester program is going to be able to spam me?


    Thanks for any help
     
    bad_bob00, Nov 10, 2009 IP
  2. dynashox

    dynashox Premium Member Staff

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    Nope. Deleting the meta tag will not effect your website design or whatsoever.

    Yes, you can replace the @ symbol with at.

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  3. deathshadow

    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Like every other meta besides robots, keywords and description, 99.999999% of visitors - INCLUDING search engines - could give a flying fig.
     
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