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meta question(s)

Mar 17, 2005 4:21AM PST

What does this meta tag mean and do?


<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

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Character Encodings...

With this information, clients can easily map these encodings to Unicode. In practice, a few encodings will be preferred, most likely: UTF-8 , ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), US-ASCII, UTF-16, the other encodings in the ISO-8859 series, iso-2022-jp, euc-kr, and so on.

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someone told me
Mar 17, 2005 6:49AM PST

someone told me that it would help the search engine read the website. They said that the words on the page would be read, so that I didn't have to use keywords. Is that true ?

Thanks

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Depends on the Search Engines...

Google doesn't use meta tags... Google ranks sites based on published links on websites that they themselves are ranked on the google search engines (GoogleJuice). The more GoogleJuice you have, the better you are in bumping sites up on Google.

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Re: Someone Told Me
Apr 4, 2005 11:58AM PDT

I wonder if they were referring to the follwoing meta tag:

<meta name="keywords" content="">

Some search engines look for the keywords in this meta tag. So if you're doing a site promoting non-charitable services, you could have

<meta name="keywords" content="non-profit, not for profit, services">

Anyone searching for those terms you include would hit on your site.

That's my story & I'm sticking to it.

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(NT) (NT) Question Answered, Thanks !
Apr 4, 2005 3:08PM PDT