Hi i was looking at a very successfull website and their source code ahs this on top:
<html>
<head>
<title>Wass-Up.Com / SoAsians.Com</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META NAME=DESCRIPTION CONTENT="UK's award winning Leading Asian Clubbing Guide. Including the latest info, reviews and pics of gigs and events. Free SMS and ringtones. Over 27,000 members on the Forums! ">
<META NAME=KEYWORDS CONTENT="wassup,wass,up,asianclubs,indian,chat,ringtones,sms,gigs,clubs,events,bhangra,asian,nightclubs,djs,lyrics,guide,sorted,chat">
<META NAME=ROBOTS CONTENT=ALL>
<META NAME=RATING CONTENT=General>
<META NAME=REVISIT-AFTER CONTENT=1>
<META NAME=CLASSIFICATION CONTENT="Arts & Entertainment">
<META NAME=DISTRIBUTION CONTENT=Global>
<META NAME=AUTHOR CONTENT="Wass-Up.com">
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.wass-up.com/favicon.ico">
what does it all mean? does it Search engine optimise it?
Jason.NXH
12-16-2005, 11:56 AM
What's strange about it?
It's just the META tags which are used to be read by search engine crawlers or bots.
NorthWest
12-16-2005, 12:04 PM
<META NAME=RATING CONTENT=General>
What type of content is on the website
<META NAME=REVISIT-AFTER CONTENT=1>
How often the robots should come and visit your site
<META NAME=CLASSIFICATION CONTENT="Arts & Entertainment">
I consider this similar to rating content, what type of content is on your website
<META NAME=DISTRIBUTION CONTENT=Global>
Who the content is available to
<META NAME=AUTHOR CONTENT="Wass-Up.com">
Who created the content
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.wass-up.com/favicon.ico">
That nice little picture for your browser
<META NAME=ROBOTS CONTENT=ALL>
Allows all the robots to visit
I Love You Cheetojackson!
How often the robots should come and visit your siteNo major search engine honors that tag. It was created as a proprietory instruction for one local search engine years ago; its proliferation from there is simply a myth.
In other words, don't bother.
Allows all the robots to visit
Not exactly, as that seems to imply that "ALL" refers to "all the robots." In fact, anything you put in the Robots meta tag will apply to "all the robots," but the "ALL" directive specifically is equivalent to "INDEX, FOLLOW," meaning a request for the page in question to indexed and outgoing links from the page to be followed.
so what your saying is ALL would be just the same as putting in = "INDEX, FOLLOW," ?
Also if i do have those meta tags and robots will it be some sort of disadvantage to me or will just have no effect?
One last thing, ive applied a robots.txt file in my public_html folder that works dosent it?
so what your saying is ALL would be just the same as putting in = "INDEX, FOLLOW," ?
Also if i do have those meta tags and robots will it be some sort of disadvantage to me or will just have no effect?
One last thing, ive applied a robots.txt file in my public_html folder that works dosent it?
1. Correct.
2. No real effect; most of them are ignored by search engines.
3. Yes, if you're covering everything you want to do with robots.txt you have no need for the meta tag.
ebay here i come! lols thanks for that!
seodevhead
12-16-2005, 04:40 PM
JayC is right... take it from me... it's worthless. If anything it will decrease your "score" with search engines. Mostly because of all the extraneous hoops the spider has to jump through to get to the meat of the content. But basically.. not needed.
innovation
12-16-2005, 10:54 PM
No major search engine honors that tag. It was created as a proprietory instruction for one local search engine years ago; its proliferation from there is simply a myth.
Which is a giant mistake in my oppinion, as in many cases the 'soming soon' text stays in the search engine results even 2 years after the launch of the website.
Corey Bryant
12-17-2005, 09:49 AM
And in case you wanted an in-depth detail about each one: Back to Basics: META Tags (http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html)
