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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. Suggested meta tags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    <meta name="will_be_shutdown_by_the_riaa" value="">
    <meta name="contains_drm_technology" value="">
    <meta name="capable_of_withstanding_slashdot_effect" value="">
    <meta name="viewable_with_browser_other_than_IE" value="">
    <meta name="uses_extremely_irritating_blink_tag" value="">
    <meta name="requires_irritating_to_install_plugin" value="">

  2. hmm by crm114 · · Score: 5, Funny

    interestingly, the article html contains meta name="keywords" content="metatags are evil, metatags must die, death to the meta tags"

  3. Re:Meta tags aren't so useful by Dirtside · · Score: 5, Funny
    sex dick pussy vagina cum cumbath ass fuck britney spears orgasm ...
    Such language! Where I come from we don't use words like "Britney Spears" in polite company, young man.
    --
    "Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
  4. Re:Meta tags aren't so useful by Bishop923 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once I actually went to explicity search for "pussy"

    Bars tend to be better than search engines for that sort of thing.