Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'meta'

Bing's Geo Targeting Algorithm Needs Some Work

Earlier, we noted how Bing, Microsoft's search engine, relied heavily on the meta language tag. Google's Matt Cutts even commented why using that method can lead to issues (don't you love it when the search engines nitpick at each other)....

Bing Geo-Targeting With Meta Language Tag

A Bing Community thread has one webmaster who had his meta language tag set to the UK and he paid for it. Supposedly, Microsoft's Bing plays close attention to that meta tag and in the case of Joomla, the default...

Can META Keyword Tags Confuse Google?

We all know that Google ignores the META keywords tag on pages, or at least that is what we believe and what we are told. This does not mean Google ignores other meta tags, such as the meta description, but...

Stop Google From Translating Your Pages with New NoTranslate Tag

Ever want to stop Google from translating your pages? You know, when you view a page in Google and it says, "translate" this page. Well, now you can. A Google Webmaster Central blog post explains Google has added a new...

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