metatags and search engines????? 1

[jlockley]

Rewriting my own miserable web pages and adding two sets for expansions of my business I come across a few suggestions that metatags may be counter productive, and that careful page planning is more important for search engine placement.

Anyone have knowledge or even partially sound opinions on the matter????

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I'd ask this over in the SEO forum.

Dan



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[Foamcow]

Nothing in a meta tag will be counter productive, but they won't be that productive either.

Play it straight, concentrate on content and go to the SEO forum. (Forum828)

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[jlockley]

Thanks. I looked and didn't turn that forum up. I should have known: SEO

 

[jstreich]

SEO is the place to look. That said, they will tell you this:

metadata is good to have, but ignored by most search engines because of the number of sites in the ninties that stuffed the meta data with words having nothing to do with the page. Good content, proper syntax, use of full phrases instead of aberviations (or at least abbr or acronym tags) and links with relevant text (instead of "more", "click here", or "link") does more for you than meta tags.

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[jlockley]

Thank you very much. That was precisely what I was looking for. Thank you all for the pointer to the SEO forum. I am chewing through it.