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Declaring The Death of Metatags

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the few-bad-apples-spoiled-the-barrel dept.

theduck writes "Andrew Goodman of Traffick.com pleaded for someone to announce the end of metatags (at least with respect to trying to skeeve good search engine ranking). and Danny Sullivan, Editor of The SearchEngineReport obliged. Personally, I've resisted using them for years, but convincing clients that they're not worth the effort has always been difficult. Does anyone (except porn sites) actually use them anymore?"

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  1. meta tags GOOD by Fweeky · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Author, generator, description (very important when your content doesn't look too hot in a search engine summary; hello ALA and your dumbass "this site will look much better in.." blurb), content type and the way too often overlooked text encoding, and things like DCMI.

    They're also useful for keeping your documents in a form you can process later; you can, for instance, embed creation dates, CVS revisions, shorter/alternate titles and summaries for links.

    <slaps timothy for spreading FUD against a perfectly useful HTML tag>

    EAT FLAMING DEATH TIMMY!

  2. Let's get this straight by whereiswaldo · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Personally, I've resisted using them for years, but convincing clients that they're not worth the effort has always been difficult. Does anyone (except porn sites) actually use them anymore?"


    Okay, if the person who submitted this story actually read Slashdot, they would have saw the story about 90% of the Internet being obsolete. So then, if that story is correct, obviously meta tags abound! If that story is incorrect, then you have to question the journalistic integrity of Slashdot. Who would want to do that?.. tsk tsk.