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Old March 17th, 2005, 07:56 AM
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"inventing" meta tags

Checked the source code of my competitor who shows as No. 1 in Google and discovered something weird. Besides the regular keywords and description, they also use other meta tags such as "keyphrase", "abstract", "classification". Are they even valid meta tags? I have seen people add any stuff like that in meta tags before but what good does it do and is any search engine paying attention to those?The site is pretty well optimized otherwise, so I don't think it's these extra meta tags that take it to No. 1 in the search results. However, what's your opinion on them?

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Understand that Meta means Metadata. In other words, those keywords could be used by some internal mechanism. Anything in HTML is valid so long as what you are using reads the tag and does something with it. Meta tags were created for that sort of functionality.
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My lord I think everyone is looking at my sites today? Am I just being paranoid? Is it nicotine withdrawl? Can you make the voices stop?


I use certain tags...such as you mentioned...for certain things

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