Timeline for New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond
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| Dec 5, 2010 at 21:23 | comment | added | John Conde♦ | That's a bit of a stretch of the definition of meta data and not an accurate reflection of how that tag is used. If the title tag really was just meta data it would be a meta tag and not its own tag. It's its own tag because it is used for display purposes amongst other things. Basically, it's like the title of a book. Prominently on the front cover. The inside page with the publishing information and copyright would be the equivalent of the meta data. | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 20:31 | comment | added | Stephan Muller | @John: Meta does not mean invisible. Metadata is data about data, and the <title> definitely says something about the page, which makes it metadata in a kind of way. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 18:10 | comment | added | Sam | I see... Still it would be nice if someone out here with more language expertise could advise on that meta "language" thingy. This is ofcourse only really relevant for multilingual websites, Which i am planning to create but if one doesn't then we could agree that this meta might be obnsolete for an entire website written in only one language. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 17:59 | comment | added | Marco Demaio | @Sam: I'm not native english speaker, but in my answer I wrote "The language tag can bring some benefit..." I didn't write: "It's obsolete"! I use coz' IMO it's fair to clarify to browsers SE and whoever might crawl the page what the language of the page is. It's like clarifying which encoding it's used on page. The encoding MUST be specified, if you forget to specify it you might run into real tech issues in viewing page and exchanging data with server, whilest the language meta tag does not create tech issues, as I said I use it to easily detect via JS the page language. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 17:24 | comment | added | Sam | Marco, on various occasions I types in some text in Google translator, and eht autodetection found a wrong language! Are you sure the language-meta-tag is obsolete in 2011? | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 17:09 | comment | added | Sam | Does that mean, that meta perse is and will remain invisible for the viewer, and so is only useful for seo-alike purposes? | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 16:58 | comment | added | John Conde♦ |
The <title> tag is not meta information. It is displayed by the web browsers.
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| Dec 2, 2010 at 14:47 | comment | added | Stephan Muller |
Hmm, I misread what you said then. nofollow and noindex are useful, but follow and index are already implied so they're useless. You're right about that :)
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| Dec 2, 2010 at 14:03 | comment | added | Marco Demaio | Exactly what I said, you use "nofollow", but do you use "follow" for SEO purpose? I'm saying that "follow" is useless for SEO purpose, SE do follow stuff on their own unless Disallow or noindex. But he is asking what is useful to rank well on SE, not how to disallow SE to pass PR or to index a page. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 13:59 | comment | added | Stephan Muller |
I disagree about the robots. Pages like search results, tag/category overview, date-based archives etc. can often produce duplicate content and shouldn't always be indexed. Following them however would be a good idea to allow spiders to get to all your pages. I use nofollow,index a lot. Nobody says follow forces google to follow it. Doesn't make the tag entirely useless though.Also, even though it's not called 'meta' literally the <title> is also meta information of a page and very important :P
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| Dec 2, 2010 at 13:55 | comment | added | Marco Demaio | @Vergil Penkov: no problem, at least you have the courage of your doings. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 13:48 | comment | added | Vergil Penkov | It was me, and was a mistake. Sorry, corrected. :) | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 13:42 | history | edited | Marco Demaio | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added 59 characters in body; added 63 characters in body
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| Dec 2, 2010 at 13:38 | comment | added | Sam | thanks Marco, from your input, i put description for now at the very top of the list | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 13:35 | history | answered | Marco Demaio | CC BY-SA 2.5 |