HTML tags that convey information about a webpage, such as it's title or it's description, in a way that a computer program can understand.
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What are the pros and cons of using Dublin Core meta tags?
This is an open question on why, how, or when to use or not use Dublin Core meta tags. For example, <meta name="DC.title" content="Title of my Webpage" />. Should this be used in addition to or ...
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Does the meta description affect page ranking on Google?
According to the following site
http://dailyseotip.com/meta-description-tags-and-ctr-the-new-way-that-meta-tags-affect-rankings/1448/
We’ve known for years that Google doesn’t consider meta ...
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Image for sharing on Facebook/G+?
Is it possible to add an image to a html page that only shows up when sharing page on Facebook/G+? The image should not be visible in the html page since it contains a Flash game, but I would like it ...
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http-equiv=content-language alternative - the way of specifying document language
Lots of web sites uses following meta tag to specify the default language of the document:
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="es-ES">
When I go to W3C site and read about HTML ...
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Validation Meta tags for search engines
Should validation meta tags for search engines be left on the site following validation? For example, should I leave my msvalidate meta tag after I've validated the site.
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Multiple meta tags for mobile optomisation?
For mobile optimization Ive read that you should include all the following meta tags:
<meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" />
<meta name="MobileOptimized" content="320" />
...
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Meta keywords single words or phrase?
It is acceptable or recommended to only use 1 keyword per delimiter? Or can we use a phrase?
For example:
car, Audi, Ferrari, Lamborgini
vs
Audi Car, Ferrari Car, Lamborgini Car
What is ...
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Which method is the best to specify the language of a page?
There seems to be two ways to specify the language of a page:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
and
<html lang="en-us">
Which one is the preferred way? I know I ...
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Adsense and blocking robots from web pages
If I use a meta tag to make a page 'noindex' does this mean that my adsense ads will not be targeted?
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Meta Descriptions for pages not Indexed by Search Engine?
I have read about Meat Descriptions here on the webmasters forum. The question I have is is it necessary or important to have description on pages that are not being index by the search engine. Like ...
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multilanguage site meta content-language tag
I have a website which is in 3 languages: English (primary), German and French. When a language is selected all of page's content is translated to the selected language (the page content is always in ...
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Delimiter character for keywords meta tag
I'm sorry, I searched this site, but couldn't find the answer to my question, in spite of it being so trivial.
I'm working on a CMS which get's keywords from end user, which means that they are ...
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Which is the appropriate content-type meta tag value?
I have a question about the meta tag content-type. When starting to build my site (HTML+PHP+JS), I copied a lot of the meta tags over from elsewhere, and I have, amongst others, the following:
...
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Will PHP Meta hurt SEO?
If I use PHP to place my meta tags such as keywords and descriptions will that hurt SEO? Will the bots not be able to crawl through the keywords and descriptions?
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How can I set the first two paragraphs as metada description on blogger?
I want to configure my meta description to have the initial bit of my post. On my template I just have <data:post.body/> and there is nowhere where I can get only the first bit.
Is there a way ...
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What keyword should come first in a product page's meta tags?
Working with ~100,000 products. Currently the way I'm using has the following priorites (most to least)
Model information such as name and model number of a given product
Product line's associated ...
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Does anyone use meta keywords besides google?
Can anyone tell me if there are any services that use meta keywords, and if so, what those services are? I know that google doesn't use them, but I'm wondering if anyone else does.
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what are benefits of URL rewriting?
URL rewriting has become quite popular but I think it only adds more complexity to the Web. They call the old fashioned URL's, "dirty URL" so I'll use that term.
They argue that with rewriting, it ...
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Indexing for Google scholar, which tags to use?
In the "Inclusion Guidelines for Webmasters" for Google Scholar is written under Indexing Guidelines:
Google Scholar supports Highwire Press tags (e.g., citation_title), Eprints tags (e.g., ...
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Within my HTML meta data, should it be © or ©
Within my copyright meta data I have the following
<meta name="copyright" content="example.com © Copyright 2011 by Me. All Rights Reserved." />
Is this correct, or should I simply ...
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Meta tags again. Good or bad to use them as page content?
From a SEO point of view, is it wise to use exactly the same page title value and keyword/description meta tag values not only as meta information, but also as page content?
An example illustrates ...
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Correct syntax for Canonical - link or meta tag?
I'm getting a little confused about adding canonical tags to pages. Some (most?) guides suggest using a link tag thusly:
<link rel="canonical" href="www.example.com/somepage" />
but some ...
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Photo Gallery Software - reads from a local directory - watches folder- user and group permissions [closed]
Use Case:
Photos are organised in a folder structure by date (by software lightroom/picasa)
Want to run a local webserver to host a web gallery from (already know how to run lamp etc)
I want to be ...
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How can I provide star rating metadata to search engines?
Some search engines (including Google and Bing) display a star rating for things like movies and downloads on sites such as IMDB and cnet.
How can I configure my site to provide this data?
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How to use Canonical and Original-Source Correctly, on multilingual website?
was wondering wether searchengines index this correctly in a multilingual website:
Currently, the htaccess eats nice urls on pages like
/de/somepage and rewrites them invisibly to /somepage?ln=de
so ...
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How does XML+XSLT affect SEO?
I have a site that is built completely in XML and is transformed by a single XSL file. How does this affect SEO? Is it possible to store page-specific metadata? Will robots see the transformed page ...
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What's the meta-tag title for?
While reading this question on webmasters:
http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/1721/why-dont-websites-have-a-description-meta-tag-in-the-head-section
I also checked out stachexchange's ...
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Difference between meta tags Content-Language and language
What's the difference between these two meta-tags
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="de, en"/>
<meta name="language" content="de, en">
Are they both needed?
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Which meta tags are not worth the effort?
After reading this question about meta keywords, I've been wondering : of all meta tags, which ones are really worth the effort ?
I know that the description is used in google search results, and the ...
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Are Meta Keywords Obsolete? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are meta keywords worth the effort?
Creating a website for a BraodBand Company, and not too sure whether or not to go ahead and fill in the meta keywords? Are they still ...
