Semicolon vs. comma in separating words in meta tags...

[Minarai]

Could you please explain why the new trend seems to be to use a semicolon in separating words in the meta tag rather than a comma?

(ex. microsoft@anypage view; source)

And which ought I use?

TIA,

Leya

 

[crazyboybert]

by words i assume you mean keywords? latest i heard was to seperate them with spaces only allowing the spider to view them as individual words or phrases eg. "green monkey" could be read as

green

or

monkey

or

green monkey

but remember you are only supposed to have a maximum of 200 characters including spaces for meta keywords after this some search engines will just ignore the rest or even ignore the lot....

hope this helps

rob

 

[Bentley22]

Whoa, hey, so your saying if your keywords list exceeds 200 chars then some search engines will ingnore your site altogether? And BTY, where would I find this information?

 

[crazyboybert]

hi guys,

sorry its taken me a while to get back to this one...it must have just dropped off the bottom and i missed your post bentley.

what i'm saying is that most spiders will only read around 200 characters. after this they give up. some im told are so pick they give up on the site altogether but i dont know that for sure..

If you are interested in this topic and wanna read more try here

http://spider-food.net/meta-tags.html

(you'll have to go to the next page to read about character lengths)

its agood resource for search engine stuff. and so is

http://searchenginewatch.com

but dont panic just yet as meta tags arent the be all anyway...registration is far more important...especially if you are prepared topay for it...but that is another story....

hope the links help clear it up a bit

rob

 

[Bentley22]

Hey, thanks, I'd gone on to reasearch it anyway, registered all over the place, didnt' want to pay for the premium service though. Excite wanted $300+ to get registered in 2 days! Thanks for the links.