Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-04 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 04/07/07, Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. Meta tags are all but depreciated at this point. That's a bold - and largely incorrect - statement. Perhaps the META tags that were covered in most Beginning HTML type books a few years ago aren't needed any more (although

Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-04 Thread James Jeffery
No all meta tags are depreciated, and i cant see them being either, google still uses the meta=description , as also bruce has pointed out. Regards On 7/4/07, Bruce Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 19:04 -0400, Brian Cummiskey wrote: Joyce Evans wrote: Is it

Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-04 Thread Mark Harris
James Jeffery wrote: No all meta tags are depreciated, and i cant see them being either, google still uses the meta=description , as also bruce has pointed out. Not to pick on you, James, because Bruce already used it, but the word is deprecated not depreciated. And before someone picks on

Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-04 Thread James Jeffery
Sorry, that was a type error, sometimes i wizz so fast on the keyboard i miss keys and hit extra keys, must be my fat fingers. Depreciated means to lessen the value, and the value of meta tags has gone down hill from the days when they got abused to boost page rankings, but its not going to be

Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-04 Thread Cameron Singe
Although meta tags are depreciated, I was reading yesterday, you can still include meta information for specific spiders, like only telling yahoo spiders to go away On 7/4/07, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, that was a type error, sometimes i wizz so fast on the keyboard i miss

Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-04 Thread Michael MD
Although meta tags are depreciated, I was reading yesterday, you can still include meta information for specific spiders, like only telling yahoo spiders to go away I think Google and Yahoo also see rel=nofollow on links (to prevent the link from being counted for a page's ranking - such as

Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-04 Thread Bruce Morrison
Hi Mark On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 21:42 +1200, Mark Harris wrote: James Jeffery wrote: No all meta tags are depreciated, and i cant see them being either, google still uses the meta=description , as also bruce has pointed out. Not to pick on you, James, because Bruce already used it, but

[WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-03 Thread Joyce Evans
I'm new to this group, so if this discussion has occurred in the past, I'm not aware of it. Is it important to include the following as part of the meta tags on web pages? meta name=robots content=index,follow Joyce ***

Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-03 Thread Lea de Groot
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:45:26 -0500, Joyce Evans wrote: Is it important to include the following as part of the meta tags on web pages? meta name=robots content=index,follow No. 'index' and 'follow' are the default values for the robots meta - any robot will assume these values if there is

Re: [WSG] Robot meta tags

2007-07-03 Thread Bruce Morrison
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 19:04 -0400, Brian Cummiskey wrote: Joyce Evans wrote: Is it important to include the following as part of the meta tags on web pages? meta name=robots content=index,follow No. Meta tags are all but depreciated at this point. he only common one still being