Bryan, You're talking about the semantic web which is Tim Berners Lee's plan for web 2.0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web The theory is that humans can tag web pages better than search engines. Sometimes there are words that aren't in the text of the page that can be used to describe the page more accurately and enable some really detailed searches. Lets say I used "rdf" tags on my home page to say that I'm the founder of a software company and also an alumnus of Michigan State University. So then I could do a search for software companies run by alumni of Michigan State. You should also check out /http://del.icio.us/ <http://http://del.icio.us/>which allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed of someone else's bookmarks for example. Rick Mason On 4/20/05, Bryan F. Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ooops, sorry, I'm talking about this > http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/04/20.html#a1219 > > Not meta tags, meta data tags. :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:19 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: MetaData Tags > > In ten words or less meta tags are a lot less important than they were > because of Google. Still, they affect page rank on other search > engines, such as Yahoo, I am told (some contradictory information > here). The really brief tutorial is that the most important meta tags > are description and keywords. Here is a link: > > http://htmlprimer.com/HotTopics/metatags.shtml > > Be aware that the Title tag and the actual content of the site are at > least equally important and that you should make every effort to use > very specific targeted language, ie if you sell cat toys use "cat > toys" as a descriptor not "cat" and "toy" as you have almost no > realistic hope of making it to the top of the ranking of those terms > and proably wouldn't want to to anyway as they are looking for > something that is not you most likely. > > hope that helps. > Dana > >
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