Declaring The Death of Metatags

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Declaring The Death of Metatags

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 1, 2002 @09:34AM 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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greetings, fellow Doomers by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 09:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

0wn3d!!!!
The end is near! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 09:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

at least I got fp
no by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 09:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

no
First Post(I Hope) by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 09:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

No I don't think they do.
fp by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 09:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

smokin blunts smokin weed
who cares about metatags? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 09:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

PoliGlut.com is back!!!!
First Metapost by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 09:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

woooooooooooooohooooooooooooo!!!
something by djsable · 2002-10-01 09:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Something close to first post? is it possible?

heh, probably not. just a bug in the matrix.
Re:Meta tags aren't so useful by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 09:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What do you mean by "vagina"?
did I miss the slashdot story about Redhat 8.0? by dcstimm · 2002-10-01 09:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

did I miss the slashdot story about Redhat 8.0? I guess so!

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Re:sure, i do. by mwolff · 2002-10-01 10:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That's hilarious I mixed up that answer, your signature, with Plato on a quiz today at school.
LOL!
Slashdot is helpful on so many levels! HAHA I'm so dumb!
Re:redirects/refreshes? by falzer · 2002-10-01 10:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This is completely off-topic, but check out the Onion article on the RIAA:
Link.
Re:Meta tags aren't so useful by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 10:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'll tell you when you're 40 and move out of your parents' basement.
As another Canadian... by kaladorn · 2002-10-01 11:23 · Score: 1, Offtopic

One word: Ottawa.

Okay, that isn't terribly descriptive and it is damning a lot of reasonable expenditures. But it isn't so far off the mark as to be libelous.

Though I too would love to see the link in question!

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1. Re:As another Canadian... by kaladorn · 2002-10-01 14:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
  My guess is about the same time that we get a PM from some part of the country other than La Belle Provence (well, slightly after that, but definitely not until!)
  
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List your favourite free porn site here by ylikone · 2002-10-01 14:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

http://www.chickz.org is a good one.
A good site must not contain any pop-ups or be full of crap.... must only have good free porn.

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Is this like... by Dannon · 2002-10-01 17:34 · Score: 1, Offtopic

...the death of *BSD? Or Mark Twain? Or Elvis, for that matter?

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