Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-26 Thread Dilip Samuel
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 is

RE: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-26 Thread Peter Firminger
Hi, There are certainly uses of DC elements but they are generally within other schemas. The Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/gov_online/agls/summary.html metadata scheme is one that uses DC elements, Education Network Australia (EdNA) http://www.edn

Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-26 Thread Daniel Torres Burriel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: | far. I am hoping to change to Dublin Core meta tags in the future though, as | the concept seems much better than that of the old meta tags. They'll be | great for internal search engines as well. I use DC meta

RE: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-26 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
ober 2004 1:28 AM > 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 benefi

RE: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-26 Thread Ted Drake
C. Perkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 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.

Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Steven C. Perkins
1:41, Ted Drake wrote: Date sent: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:41:58 -0700 From: Ted Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [WSG] dublin core and search engines To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I hope thi

Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Terrence Wood
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, which

Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Nick Lo
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 have

Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Nick Lo
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 stan

RE: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Mike Pepper
motion.com Administrator Guild of Accessible Web Designers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gawds.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Drake Sent: 25 October 2004 19:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] dublin core and search engines I hope

Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Terrence Wood
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 resea

Re: [WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Lea de Groot
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 ca

[WSG] dublin core and search engines

2004-10-25 Thread Ted Drake
I hope this isn't off topic. But I figured the Dublin Core was standards based and so I'm throwing it out there. Our company hired an SEO company to help get better search results. They gave the standard answers with page names, titles, descriptions, as well as the wink/nod use these alt tags,