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Old July 30th, 2004, 05:46 AM
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Can any one tell me about this what is the importance of using this in site .


2) There are 2 ways to name the pages Like web-design-firm-dallas.htm
and the another way is web_design_firm_dallas.htm
Which one way is the better to name the .htm pages ?
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I don't use that meta tag and would like to hear if it really is important.

I use hypens. I have read in many tutorials and books that search engines like them better than underscores.
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It tells your browser what kind of charachters should be used:

Western European, ISO Latin1 (iso-8859-1)
Central European, ISO Latin2 (iso-8859-2)
South European, ISO Latin3 (iso-8859-3)
North European, ISO Latin4 (iso-8859-4)
Cyrillic, ISO (iso-8859-5)
Arabic, ISO (iso-8859-6)
Greek, ISO (iso-8859-7)
Hebrew, ISO (iso-8859-8)
Turkish, ISO Latin5 (iso-8859-9)
Nordic, ISO Latin6 (iso-8859-10)
Central European, Win Latin2 (windows-1250)
Slavic, Windows Cyrillic (windows-1251)
Western European, Win Latin1 (windows-1252)
Greek, Windows (windows-1253)
Turkish, Win Latin5 (windows-1254)
Hebrew, Windows (windows-1255)
Arabic, Windows (windows-1256)
Baltic, Windows (windows-1257)

Also some info here
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/charset.html
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Great Article Mano.
From what I understand, the charset META is also pretty important for SEO.
If you don't establish the characterset in the head, some spiders have difficulty
crawling the pages and gathering all the information properly. Just as a personal example,
for my site, during the first few months of it being up, the charset META wasn't there. The page
had already been indexed by spiders, but the ranking for the site name was awful, wasn't even in the top 50 for Google.
Long story short, I placed the charset META throughout and now my site is number 1 for keyphrase "Advance Mentoring".
So I would say it can be pretty important.

As for hypens or underscores in page names, I have no idea. But thanks for the tip EGOL, I'll give it a try.

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