Analyze my Meta Tags please!

[Mattinblack]

Originally Posted by M.D

100% Bullshit? RIGHT, Your reply is 100% Bullshit!!!

I agree that meta description tags are sometimes displayed by SE's. This doesn't mean they have any ranking influence

Meta tags have only one important influence on ranking and that is they can totally F*ck your sites ranking if

1) there are no meta tags (site considered "not search engine friendly"...go figure! site gets slight mark down)
2) Tags are too long (site gets marked down generally)
3) Tags have repeated keywords (gets marked down on just that keyword.)
4) Too many pages on site have exactly same keywords. How many times have you just copied em? Site gets general mark down on Altavista, Ask Jeeves, and Google. Other SE's dont seem to follow this rule.

They have NO positive influence on ranking but to say they are ignored is wrong.

Trust me I was working for a major UK automotive site that spent a fortune figuring it out!

[DangerDave]

Dear M.D.,

Sorry I missed your reply in amongst the other shit going on at the board.......


Sooooooooooo...................

You said:-

Originally Posted by MD

nowadays no major SE gives meta tags any ranking influence

and I said

Originally Posted by DangerDave

100% Bullshit!

Meta tags are a fundmental element of html pages - all pages should have them

I addressed two things...

Firstly - Meta Tags are a FUNDMENTAL part of any HTML page on the WWW

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/stru...l.html#h-7.4.4

If you don't use them you are not writing your pages correctly


Secondly - Meta Tags are used by many search engines(Search Engines), link directories(DMOZ), and Meta Search Sites(http://www.metacrawler.com/)


Eg: - http://www.google.com/search?num=50&...ve&btnG=Search

As Linkster said - wouldnt you like that title and description to really draw surfers into your site - and look at result number one...

adult links and porn - adult links to free porn sites, galleries ...
The only full list of free porn sites and adult links. DangerDave lists porn
sites, Pay sites, AVS sites,TGP galleries, TGP2 galleries, PicPosts,E-cards ...
www.dangerdave.com.au/

Oh! whats that two long lines of descriptive text about my site... IT's THE META TAG!!!

Last time I looked Google was still a relatively major search engine!


I invite everyone to listen to MD, and ignore myself and Linkster, and DON'T use meta tags in your pages....
Quite simply that would equal more and better listings and more money for us.......

DD

[Linkster]

DDave it's amazing the excellent presents we get every day from people that follow the type of advice given out by self-appointed SE experts - all of those sites that don't use the metas are just pushing me higher and higher - and I'm taking it to the bank.

As a side not for those that don't know this - a little tip - Yahoo started using the keyword meta again in their ranking scheme - actually happened last year but most people kinda ignored it - but definitely makes a huge difference

[neveremail]

Originally Posted by Linkster

DDave it's amazing the excellent presents we get every day from people that follow the type of advice given out by self-appointed SE experts

Hopefully everyone will be following yours and DDs advice - two webmasters which have websites which rank well in SEs and have done for a long time. I completely agree with what you both said. I also heard that yahoo is using keywords and that it gives points for keywords listed in the meta tag which actually appear "frequently" on your page. Yet still many people dont bother with them.