I have read some interesting instructions to learn how to enter meta tags properly and also watched and followed a ScreenCast from Dan Jasker which explains very well with details and I could add the meta tags very well, however after looking the view source of some websites with Firefox I realized that besides the information I enter and are explained on the screencast there are a couple of extra names and values like DC.title, DC.subject, DC.description, DC.type, DC.format and DC.identifier
Two quick question: Do I have to do something at www.dublincore.org in order to enter these meta tags? Does it have any extra effect for the SEO besides the regular meta tags I entered?
Marcus
On Dec 31, 2010, at 4:13 PM, waltd wrote:
DC stands for Dublin Core, and anything in that namespace has special meaning in library science.
Hello Dan, I need a litle help here. I went to this website you told me and they have a very useful application called “Free website analyzer” so I did it and got a result I don’t have no idea why. It says on web page analysis part:
“Found web page with frames.A web page with frames is difficult to index by a search engine spider.”
I suppose I know what a frame is and I’m pretty sure I didn’t use a frame on this page. Here’s the link: www.plusartgraphics.com.
Could you please take a look and tell me what did I do wrong or where is the frame?
They are mistaken. You don’t have any framesets on this page. I’m a
little dubious about this site and its tests, because they seem to be
aiming at selling you their product more than anything else. Also
because they go to a lot of effort to try to make you worry about
something that hasn’t been true since the late 90s – that meta tags
make any amount of difference to search engines. This would only be of
interest if you were selling a meta tag “optimizing” software product.
Coincidence???
Walter
On Jan 1, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Marcus Do Carmo wrote:
“Found web page with frames.A web page with frames is difficult to
index by a search engine spider.”
Before anyone gets the idea that I am totally dismissing meta tags:
I’m not. What they are very useful for is allowing machines (even
Google) to categorize your data – to make it more machine-readable.
That is a good and useful thing. But to get you to a higher search
engine ranking? That game was “gamed” by the SEO snake-oil salesmen in
the late 90s, and the search engines all took the nuclear winter
approach and basically ignore the contents of the meta tags with
respect to ranking.
Walter
On Jan 1, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
They are mistaken. You don’t have any framesets on this page. I’m a
little dubious about this site and its tests, because they seem to
be aiming at selling you their product more than anything else. Also
because they go to a lot of effort to try to make you worry about
something that hasn’t been true since the late 90s – that meta tags
make any amount of difference to search engines. This would only be
of interest if you were selling a meta tag “optimizing” software
product. Coincidence???
Walter
On Jan 1, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Marcus Do Carmo wrote:
“Found web page with frames.A web page with frames is difficult to
index by a search engine spider.”
Thanks for bringing light to this doubt I had. I found some articles of this site very interesting to read and learn, but when I realized that at the end their major purpose were selling these products I start to find it a little suspect too. I’ve been learning and I agree with you Walter and Dan when you guys say that meta tags are important only to look cosmetically correct to make it more machine-readable, but it does not guarantee any increase on ranking. What I didn’t know is that the “game was gamed” back in the 90’s. Well…why I don’t find it hard to believe?
Well, it’s important first cosmetically to look your best as there are tons of sites out there that don’t take the extra step, regardless of any results, to fill out those tags and they end up making that first impression a bad one. People also fail to add proper titles for their pages and put things like ‘About’ or ‘Home’ with no continuity to it.
Secondly, back in the day, there were things such as keyword spamming where people would fill up the keywords with things that may or may not be related to their web sites. Then they had description spamming and it just went on and on. My personal favorite was when people would put tons of words in the footer of their pages and make the type color the same as the background color. They figured that out real quick.
Thanks again!
Vey funny this when people put words with the same color of their page background…
Have a nice week!
Marcus
On Jan 2, 2011, at 4:47 AM, Dan J wrote:
Well, it’s important first cosmetically to look your best as there are tons of sites out there that don’t take the extra step, regardless of any results, to fill out those tags and they end up making that first impression a bad one. People also fail to add proper titles for their pages and put things like ‘About’ or ‘Home’ with no continuity to it.
Secondly, back in the day, there were things such as keyword spamming where people would fill up the keywords with things that may or may not be related to their web sites. Then they had description spamming and it just went on and on. My personal favorite was when people would put tons of words in the footer of their pages and make the type color the same as the background color. They figured that out real quick.
