Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'meta tags'

A Google Webmaster Help thread once again confirms that Google ignores the geo-meta tags. Those tags somewhat look like this and use to serve the purpose of telling search engines where the site is based: <meta name="geo.placename" content="United States" /><meta...

Posted on September 29, 2009 9:07 AM

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...

Posted on March 26, 2009 5:22 AM

It appears Craigslist, the very popular and old school directory listing site, has added the nofollow meta tag to most of their pages. If you view the source of the listing pages, you should see <meta name="robots" content="NOARCHIVE,NOFOLLOW"> in the...

Posted on March 3, 2009 7:58 AM

Sometimes I seriously wonder where some of these SEO theories come from. One that caught my eye this week was found in a Google Webmaster Help thread, asking if it can hurt your SEO efforts if you do not alphabetize...

Posted on January 5, 2009 8:33 AM

For many many cases, when people are having issues with their site's doing well in the search engines - they sometimes overlook the obvious. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen or heard that webmasters are complaining...

Posted on December 9, 2008 8:02 AM

A Google Groups thread has discussion around how to properly use the alt attribute and title attribute for your web page images. Of course, Google recommends that you make sure to make them as useful for the end users. So...

Posted on November 17, 2008 7:24 AM

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...

Posted on October 23, 2008 7:49 AM

A WebmasterWorld member says that when he changed his meta description, his rankings plummeted on his site. In the past, US courts found META tags immaterial but Google has recommended it. Tedster points to previous WebmasterWorld coverage that shows that...

Posted on July 18, 2008 9:40 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around the META description. There is no doubt that most search engines look and use the META description on some level. Google and Yahoo and Live Search may use it for your search results snippet,...

Posted on July 9, 2008 8:09 AM

A Cre8asite Forums member asks the community about the length of a meta tag (keywords, description). Is there a particular length that you should limit yourself to? Most search engines ignore it, and a recent lawsuit said that meta tags...

Posted on June 12, 2008 9:32 AM

Less than a month ago, a lawsuit ruling determined that META tags are "immaterial" -- at least within Google, so forum members are wondering how important it is to add the meta description to web pages. Is there any benefit...

Posted on May 19, 2008 9:50 AM

Before beginning, I know a few of you will be upset I wrote this at all. But I want to show you the history here. A WebmasterWorld thread asks what is the story with the noarchive META tag and the...

Posted on May 14, 2008 7:39 AM

At Search Engine Land, Barry writes about how a US court has decided that META keywords don't matter -- they are "immaterial." The tip came from Eric Goldman's blog where he writes about a recent case that held a company...

Posted on April 28, 2008 10:22 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread is reporting signs of Google shortening their snippet text from about 150 characters to 95 characters. The snippet is the portion of text Google typically pulls from your meta description tag or from content on your...

Posted on August 10, 2007 7:35 AM

If you conduct a search for google custom search blog and look at the results, you will notice this: Why is there just a title and url? Well, if you look closer at the home page of the blog, you...

Posted on July 25, 2007 7:30 AM

Here is a question I have never seen asked before. A Search Engine Watch Forums thread asks does the order of your META tags make a difference. For example, if I place the META description tag after the META keywords...

Posted on March 2, 2007 7:10 AM

Kevin Gibbons posted a thread at Search Engine Roundtable Forums last week about how he discovered that his blog has removed "removed from the Google index." After quick review, he noticed that he had some how added the <meta name="ROBOTS"...

Posted on February 20, 2007 6:55 AM

There has always been confusion on if Google uses the meta tag data. Some say Google uses the meta description tag, some say they don't. Most say, Google doesn't use the meta keywords tag. In any event, Google's Vanessa Fox...

Posted on November 27, 2006 7:49 AM

Sometimes it is hard to find the different supported Meta tags to help control where Live.com (MSNbot) can crawl on your site and what content they should cache. I dug up the resource on MSN's Site Owner Help section that...

Posted on October 6, 2006 7:54 AM