Meta Tagsss
Written by Dana McGee Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:40
Meta tags were originally created to help categorize information in search engines. There are two tags in particular: the keywords and descriptions apart from the other metadata they can give. By using popular or the most useful words for the keywords or descriptions, a website can bring lots of searchers to their page. This was a good thing, but since it has been abused, search engines are ruling over these tags. I found that there are only two major search engines, Inktomi (who I believe was bought by Yahoo) and Teoma that still use these tags fully. Even though they are not the focus anymore for searches, most sites encourage the use of them, since it will not hurt anything if they are in the code. Yahoo and google use the description element, which gives a better description to the site in the search menu. The description usually will come up on the search page.