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Posted by Robert Montgomery on April 20, 2008, 1:44 pm
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Robert
mynameisnobodyodyssea@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Apr 20, 4:48 pm, Robert Montgomery wrote:
>> I found a Web site in my line of work (which is art) that has very good
>> Google search engine search results, so I compared the code of the front
>> page of that site to the code in the front page of my site, and found
>> some code that differs.
>>
>> Would it help my Google search engine ratings to add this code to my site?
>>
>> The first block of code is nestled between the title and keywords as
>> follows:
>>
>> <META NAME="robots" content="index,follow">
>> <meta name="GOOGLEBOT" content="index,follow">
>> <META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">
>> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
>>
>> Then this second block of code is written after the keywords:
>>
>> <META name="Rating" content="General">
>> <META name="Language" content="en">
>> <META name="distribution" content="Global">
>> <META name="Classification" content="Art, original and limited editions
>> prints">
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Robert
>
> No, I do not think your search results in Google would be improved
> if you add those meta tags.
> The index,follow content for the robots or Googlebot meta tag
> is the default, you do not need a meta tag for it.
> It is better if you do not mess with the cache-ing
> mechanism via meta tags, so you do not need
> the no-cache and 0 expires meta tags.
>
> About the other meta tags I do not think they affect
> search engines.
> About language, use the lang attribute of the <html> element,
> but I am not sure how it is taken in consideration by
> search engines.
>
> More meta tags you use, more critical it becomes
> to have valid HTML code.
> It is a good idea to have good HTML code anyway.
>
> Improve your content,
> improve your text content,
> work on attracting good quality links to your site,
> check the stats for your site on Google Webmaster Tools
> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
>
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