Google Rankings

[charlesgan]

to play safe..
its adviced to have the meta set at the site template... and so it can appear in every pages.

usually i will do that.

[hofmax]

Meta tags still carry some weight especially the description tag which will be used in Google unless you have a DMOZ entry in which case the beginning of the description on there will be used. This in turn can be switched off with a special meta tag in your site.

[davidp]

Meta tags still carry some weight especially the description tag which will be used in Google unless you have a DMOZ entry in which case the beginning of the description on there will be used. This in turn can be switched off with a special meta tag in your site.

Hi hofmax,

Why is it that if you search for a meta tag that isn't in the body of the page to which that tag is attached -- that it doesn't always appear on Google?

Thanks,
David

[charlesgan]

Hi hofmax,

Why is it that if you search for a meta tag that isn't in the body of the page to which that tag is attached -- that it doesn't always appear on Google?

Thanks,
David

content is still the king. if the content not have the 'keyword'.. thus it will not appear when people search for it. (we dont talk about huge and old domain)

[hofmax]

Charles is right. The Meta tag should introduce to the content of your page body. I.e. meta keywords that are just in the header and nowhere to be found in the page body are not much use.

[icedancer]

Write some articles on your subjects and post them to article directories with your domains as your tag line. Its viral.

[davidp]

Write some articles on your subjects and post them to article directories with your domains as your tag line. Its viral.

What do you mean by "Its viral"?

[hofmax]

People will see your link in the articles and will either link to your site because of that or they will use your articles and include your link.

[AfroJoJo]

meta keywords that are just in the header and nowhere to be found in the page body are not much use.

Not true, with Yahoo anyway.

[charlesgan]

there is too many search engines.. and some are meta search engines.
where meta tag play important roles as well.

google and yahoo not work the same.
so, meta is a good help for them, some how assist their bots to do the right thing.