Hello Terrence Wood,
You are right. The first issue is the relevancy here. If you go to my
homepage at http://www.geocities.com/seo_advice/ and view the source
code, you'll see that the meta data, especially for the keywords is
nothing but what has already appeared in the content. Hence my page
: Monday, October 25, 2004 6:59 PM
To: Ted Drake; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines
Hello:
Actually there is an academic study of the use of DC metatags on web
pages and the ranks of those pages in search engine results. I am
searching for the citation and will send
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WSG] dublin core and search engines
Hi Steven
I believe this is the paper you are looking for. I included the
Dublin Core to prepare our site for future search engines. I
hope SEO benefits will be an added bonus. It looks like this
paper
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:41:58 -0700, Ted Drake wrote:
Here's my question: Does anyone know if dublin core metatags can
hurt SEO rankings?
I don't have anything to back me up, but I do a fair amount of SEO and
*no* I can't imagine they would affect you at all!
Except perhaps for the rare
The short answer is no.
Dublin core is an initiative that introduces a standardized vocabulary
for resource (Web page) descriptions. So, unless metatags (of any
description) harm your ranking, then there is no way that DC tags in and
of themselves will.
It will probably be more helpful to
I've partly incorporated Dublin Core into an NGO site I'm working on so
I'm very interested to hear how you go with this Ted. I'd say even
though this is not the right place for an SEO discussion, if the
discussion is in regards to being penalised for implementing what is
the main metadata
Correction:
Before:
The Australian Government has incorporated Dublin Core into it's AGLS
Metadata Standard...
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.html
...and I'd be surprised if there is no-one on this list that has had
no dealings there. If there are perhaps they'd
Just to be clear, there is no way that Dublin Core in and of itself will
harm a sites ranking. I am a big fan of it myself.
Used properly, DC tags may or may not improve your ranking, but they
will not harm it either.
However, an SEO strategy that overloads meta tags with the same words,
Hello:
Actually there is an academic study of the use of DC metatags on web
pages and the ranks of those pages in search engine results. I am
searching for the citation and will send it when I find it.
The basic answer is it depends on the search engine, but in the majority
of cases, it
