cogaihalan123
26 Aug 2007, 03:04 PM
I found this Metatag explanation online, but there are a few of them that needs more explanation. Please give me some insight
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
The most important one. It must be placed before the title - We must always define the charset on every page, and using the meta element above is the most common way.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
NOT required. You should define the language with a lang attribute on the <html> opening tag: <html lang="en">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL">
"ALL" is the default, so this is NOT required unless you want anything other than to allow indexing. Other values are noindex, noarchive, nofollow.
Will This affect Goggle's search for the page?
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
Not required, but useful if you have larger images on the page, as it stops the annoying context icon in IE.
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true">
NOT required, a MS technology which was not implemented.
THis part was a bit confusing. Why do we want to put it in. Just in case?
<meta name="description" content="Description here">
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords here">
Description is important - have a unique one for each page not a general one for the whole site. Search engines like it and use it occasionally for the snippet under the search result. Keywords is of little value, but may possibly have a minor effect.
<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright line here">
<meta name="Rating" content="General">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 Days">
<meta name="doc-class" content="Completed">
Code bloat: NOT required. Unless required by an internal search engine, they have no value.
Source: http://www.webmasterworld.com/html/3409150-1-30.htm
Please Help
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
The most important one. It must be placed before the title - We must always define the charset on every page, and using the meta element above is the most common way.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
NOT required. You should define the language with a lang attribute on the <html> opening tag: <html lang="en">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL">
"ALL" is the default, so this is NOT required unless you want anything other than to allow indexing. Other values are noindex, noarchive, nofollow.
Will This affect Goggle's search for the page?
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
Not required, but useful if you have larger images on the page, as it stops the annoying context icon in IE.
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true">
NOT required, a MS technology which was not implemented.
THis part was a bit confusing. Why do we want to put it in. Just in case?
<meta name="description" content="Description here">
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords here">
Description is important - have a unique one for each page not a general one for the whole site. Search engines like it and use it occasionally for the snippet under the search result. Keywords is of little value, but may possibly have a minor effect.
<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright line here">
<meta name="Rating" content="General">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 Days">
<meta name="doc-class" content="Completed">
Code bloat: NOT required. Unless required by an internal search engine, they have no value.
Source: http://www.webmasterworld.com/html/3409150-1-30.htm
Please Help