Re: [PHP] Re: Can includes be used for head tags?

2009-05-12 Thread Nathan Rixham

tedd wrote:

At 9:32 PM +0100 5/11/09, Nathan Rixham wrote:

Gary wrote:

Thank you to everyone again for your help...

Gary


""Gary""  wrote in message 
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I was thinking of creating a php include for the  tags for a 
site. Is this possible?


Gary






just an idea.. if you ran the content of the page through a semantic 
extractor such as open calais or yahoo term extraction, then that'd be 
100%(ish) accurate meta keywords without you worrying.


but as everybody else said - yes


That's an interesting idea. But the point of meta tags (excluding Google 
because as i understand it, they don't consider them) is that the title 
of the page and meta tags description and keywords are supposed to be in 
"harmony" with the content of the page they are on.


While one could create a "semantic extractor" that would create the 
"perfect" meta keywords and description for any piece of text, the 
"perfect" arrangement might not be what you actually want.


Ah... I know exactly what you mean here, but the point is they 
always will be perfect for the content on the page, so if you review and 
they are not what you want, then it means your content needs rewritten / 
optimized to include the terms you want.


No point trying to cheat a system which is ultimately just going to run 
it through a similar system to work out what the content is about!




IMO, nothing replaces deliberate thought as to what you ultimately want 
SE's to index. If nothing else, it seems to work for me. While I get


exactly, the phrase content is king leads though, and the content on the 
page together with its structure is probably the key factor - always 
worth listening to the SE's though, their job is to bring people to the 
content they want, so make content people want and the SE's will drive 
traffic to it; especially if you write pages that are not context aware 
- each page should make complete sense as an entity by itself, not only 
when you've read the pages previous.


good reports from Google, Yahoo, AllTheWeb and AltaVista, I never seem 
to get my sites listed with MSN.


Cheers,

tedd



MSN is a tricky one, assuming you're using their webmaster tools and 
have uploaded the validation files etc?


cue many opinions..

ps: hi tedd :)

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[PHP] Re: Can includes be used for head tags?

2009-05-12 Thread tedd

At 9:32 PM +0100 5/11/09, Nathan Rixham wrote:

Gary wrote:

Thank you to everyone again for your help...

Gary


""Gary""  wrote in message 
news:52.b9.21821.82558...@pb1.pair.com...
I was thinking of creating a php include for the  tags for a 
site. Is this possible?


Gary






just an idea.. if you ran the content of the page through a semantic 
extractor such as open calais or yahoo term extraction, then that'd 
be 100%(ish) accurate meta keywords without you worrying.


but as everybody else said - yes


That's an interesting idea. But the point of meta tags (excluding 
Google because as i understand it, they don't consider them) is that 
the title of the page and meta tags description and keywords are 
supposed to be in "harmony" with the content of the page they are on.


While one could create a "semantic extractor" that would create the 
"perfect" meta keywords and description for any piece of text, the 
"perfect" arrangement might not be what you actually want.


IMO, nothing replaces deliberate thought as to what you ultimately 
want SE's to index. If nothing else, it seems to work for me. While I 
get good reports from Google, Yahoo, AllTheWeb and AltaVista, I never 
seem to get my sites listed with MSN.


Cheers,

tedd

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[PHP] Re: Can includes be used for head tags?

2009-05-11 Thread Nathan Rixham

Gary wrote:

Thank you to everyone again for your help...

Gary


""Gary""  wrote in message 
news:52.b9.21821.82558...@pb1.pair.com...
I was thinking of creating a php include for the  tags for a site. 
Is this possible?


Gary






just an idea.. if you ran the content of the page through a semantic 
extractor such as open calais or yahoo term extraction, then that'd be 
100%(ish) accurate meta keywords without you worrying.


but as everybody else said - yes

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[PHP] Re: Can includes be used for head tags?

2009-05-11 Thread Gary
Thank you to everyone again for your help...

Gary


""Gary""  wrote in message 
news:52.b9.21821.82558...@pb1.pair.com...
>I was thinking of creating a php include for the  tags for a site. 
>Is this possible?
>
> Gary
> 



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