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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Where can I find an exhaustive list of meta tags and what they do?
It seems to me that there are a ton of <meta> tags for all sorts of different purposes out there...
Though they all follow a similar format of
<meta name="" content="" />
they seem to ...
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Best practise for meta tags in various languages
We have a global site, all hosted on one .com domain (www.example.com/en www.example.com/es www.example.com/pt www.example.com/ru etc.)
Each language sub directory is identical to one another, apart ...
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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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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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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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Is it possible to stop Chrome and other browsers from pre-fetching/rendering my site?
I know you can guide Chrome to prefetch links you think users are likely to click on your site, but can you also do the inverse? Can you tell Chrome (or really any browser) not to prefetch and ...
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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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Which symbol should I use in Meta Title: “|” or “-”?
So there are two way of writing my site title.
For example:
Meow | Photo Magazine or Meow - Photo Magazine
Which one is better (for SEO and for Users)?
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Adding meta tag keywords - the same or different on all pages?
I have 10 page php website. I want to add keywords to webpages.
The website is related to hotel and having different-2 page like booking, rooms, places to visit etc.
Question: Do we need to add same ...
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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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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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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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SEO - Meta Description Tags Not Updating Search Result
I updated my meta description tag for my comics website about two months back now, but the search engine is still picking up my footer "Acceptable User Policy" text for some reason.
I'm not even ...
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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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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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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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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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falling down Google ranking with canoncial tags and Google site verification
Recently I released this site live, which is a small brochure site for a local catering company.
I took the time to add a canonical <link> tag and also verify the site with Google, so the ...
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Usage of meta tag “generator”
Is the meta tag "generator" still relevant in today's web? Has it every had any use?
<meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)" />
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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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PHP Include meta tags
A website I'm currently working on is http://www.troubi.com . Please don't care to look at the
source code.
If I validate the website through the w3cValidator a lot of errors occur all due to ...
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Will google get upset if I have incomplete pagination links?
For technical reasons (this would be really hard to do given the software that I'm using), I am only able to generate rel=prev links and not rel=next links (those links tell google what page they are ...
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Page Speed Optimization Questions: defer parsing and specifying a char set?
Continuing to optimized a web site, I'm using Chrome's Dev Tool add-on for Page Speed.
I've been able to do a good bit of performance tuning thanks to its suggestions, but these two have me ...
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What is the SKYPE_TOOLBAR meta?
I need to make an audit for a website and I discovered a "new" meta called "SKYPE_TOOLBAR", it looks like that:
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />
I've ...
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What meta tag do you use to provide Google with a publication date? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does Google recognize publish date of a post
I read about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and some spotty documentation from Google, but I can't find an official ...
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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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Meta keywords random keywords
I was wondering what about having random meta keywords instead of fixed one?
I have a blog, so every blog post has some related tags, in my home page i show the post's previews, so i put in meta ...
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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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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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Adding Google star Rating to the search Result
I need to add star rating to my site for showing the star image rating in search results. I did a search on the internet and read a few articles on it. It is basically Microformats and the related ...
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META Tags not first in Head?
I am using Dreamweaver Templates on my site and they work well. However, I have always read that it is best to have meta tags as high in the <head> as possible if not first. The meta tags that ...
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What does “all” mean in meta robots tag?
Several websites have the following meta tag aimed at search engines like Google, Bing, etc.:
<meta name="robots" content="all" />
What does it do?
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Do advertisers use the keyword meta-tag to find potentially relevant websites?
A couple of days ago, I have read somewhere (but I can't find the page anymore) that one should set a keyword meta-tag with relevant keywords, because advertising networks use these to find ...
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SEO indexing with dynamic titles, keywords and descriptions
I'm working on a website (all in one single domain) so I'm wondering to create dynamic titles, descriptions, keywords and headings for each location.
What I'm doing is to get information from the IP ...
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Confusion over W3C POWDER standard (PICS alternative)
Now that PICS is dead, I still need an easy way to tell users that my website is for mature audiences only. I intend to use PICS tags, but POWDER is said to be the new standard. Is it really used? And ...
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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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Should I use both Robots.txt and META NAME=“ROBOTS”?
I am currently using the Robots.txt file (the standard one of joomla, to say). Now I have found that there are also specific HTML meta tags that specify desired robot behavior.
Is there a reason to ...
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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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Keyword meta tags to work with google
I'm trying to optimize my website for better search results, I currently have a meta tag created for keywords like so..
<meta name="keywords" content="key1, key2, key3" />
I have waited 30 ...
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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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Physical address and contact details in Meta tags
I remember someone once saying it was useful (for SEO purposes) to include your address and contact details in the site's Meta tags.
I don't recall if he meant in in the meta description or in ...
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Is no cache meta tag bad for performance?
I see many websites, seemingly arbitrarily adding the no cache meta tag on every page.
Like this:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" ...
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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?
