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 research what practices harm rankings, and eliminate those from your SEO first. I suggest that you may be penalised for spamming:
http://www.websiteownerworld.com/articles/search-engine-optimization-seo/20030920045.html
./tdw
On 2004-10-26 7:41 AM, Ted Drake wrote:
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, comment tags, your not supposed to do this but do it anyway suggestions. I convinced everyone to do things correctly, i.e. alt tags.
I also initiated the dublin core metatags.
The SEO company doesn't know what the dublin core is. They are covering their butts because we didn't get the immediate boost that some members in our company expected. The SEO company is pointing to our dublin core metatags as if they may be at fault.
Here's my question: Does anyone know if dublin core metatags can hurt SEO rankings? I'd really appreciate any stories, blogs, or research that could give us an answer. I'm thinking the engines that ignore metatags will continue to ignore the dublin core and those that do pay attention will give us credit for them.
What are your opinions? Is anyone else using them? Ted www.csatravelprotection.com
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