Which Meta tags should we use???

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by smithy2000, Jan 17, 2010.

  1. #1
    Can anyone help please.

    Do I really need the keyphrases meta tag?? if so can repeat the same keywords contents in the keypharses tag e.g

    <meta name="keywords" content="car, house, property" />
    <meta name="keyphrases" content="car, house, property" />

    or

    <meta name="keywords" content="car, house, property" />
    <meta name="keyphrases" content="my small car, your nice house, our big property" />

    I would like to know the reason to add them to the site as I have found a bit list on the internet which is too big and I do not thing there are any need to use most of them

    see list


    <Title> </Title>

    <META name="description" content=" ">

    <META name="keywords" content=" ">

    <META name="abstract" content=" ">

    <META name="key-phrases" content=" ">

    <META name="topic" content=" ">

    <META name="subject" content=" ">

    <META name="classification" content=" ">

    <META name="distribution" content="global">

    <Meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

    <Meta name="language" content="en-us">

    <Meta name="rating" content="general">

    <Meta name="audience" content="all">

    <Meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days">

    <Meta name="resource-type" content="web page">

    <Meta name="doc-type" content="web page">

    <Meta name="doc-class" content="published">

    <Meta name="doc-rights" content="public domain">

    <Metaname="author"content="your site, http://www.yoursite.com">


    Google only wants to see these tags

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

    <html>

    <head>

    <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Author: A.N. Author, Illustrator: P. Picture, Category: Books, Price: £9.24, Length: 784 pages">

    <META http-equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

    <META NAME="google-site-verification" CONTENT="+nxGUDJ4QpAZ5l9Bsjdi102tLVC21AIh5d1Nl23908vVuFHs34="/>

    <title>Example Books - high-quality used books for children</title>

    <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">


    google source: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812

    so are we just adding tags with no need for it??

    I just need to know if keyphrases are important and how to use them??
    Also from the above list which tags should we use??

    Many Thanks
     
    smithy2000, Jan 17, 2010 IP
  2. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    google stopped readig or caring for keywrods tag long time ago. this tag has been abused so much that it doesn;t have any importance to search engines anymore.
     
    sultanofseo, Jan 17, 2010 IP
  3. Camay123

    Camay123 Well-Known Member

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    I only put keywords and description.
     
    Camay123, Jan 17, 2010 IP