Meta Tags: Too Many?

I have been revamping my templates and I was wondering if someone could help me out and give me some feedback on the meta tags that my dynamic system generates:



This is from one of my pages, all of them place the same number of meta tags on them:



Is this too many? and if so, what should I remove

TIA
Mike

Most SEs nowadays dont really look at meta tags, especially keyword tag.

If youre going to use META tags all that you really need are
Title
Description
Keywords

2ndary need
Language (GEO TARGETING)
Charset (IDN Needs)

<title> and <link> tags aren't <meta> tags, but anyway ...

These ones you need:

<title>Title</title>
<link rel="alternate" href="" title=" Feed - Your site Community" type="application/rss+xml" />
<meta name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" />

These ones might be useful if you need them for some reason:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/xtras/fav.ico" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="language" content="english" />
<meta name="charset" content="ISO-8859-1" />

Do you really need the favicon stuff?
Language/charset might be useful especially for non-English pages.Once is probably enough.

Most SEs ignore this, but good practice to include (along with the description tag you seem to be missing):

<meta name="keywords" content="blah, blah" />

These are all a waste of time IMO:

<meta name="blah, blah" />
<meta name="rating" content="Safe for Kids" />
<meta name="expires" content="never" />

<meta name="distribution" content="Global" />
<meta name="publisher" content="Yoursite.com" />
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright © 2002 - 2006 yoursite.com" />

Maybe useful, never used it myself:

<base href="http://www.yoursite.com/" />

thanks for the input, I really appreciate it

I knew some weren't meta tags, just copied my header and changed the site name and left out the description by mistake