Comments on: On Meta Tags

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:34:49 +0000

Do you think this site is for real? It pulls meta tags from anyone’s webpage. Is there a way to prevent someone from seeing my meta tags? I find this useful but I don’t think we should take someone else’s work?

What’s your opinion?

The address is http://www.metasucker.com – you enter the website and then you can see the meta tags on the website page.

By: Fintan

Fintan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:47:43 +0000

I know what meta tags are, Darren.

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:20:32 +0000

Ideally, your meta tags would change between pages to reflect the content of each individual page.

I’ve managed this in the past with ASP applications (not blogs! Shock! Horror!), where I’ve used information stored in the database to generate keywords and title tags dynamically, based on the content of that page.

Also, as I understand it, MSN Search gives some weighting toward Meta tags, although I haven’t yet verified this.

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:54:34 +0000

Look at it this way — if your pages are well-crafted, it should be easy to fill in the meta tags. If you can’t describe the page in one or two sentences, or come up with a list of keywords for the page, then perhaps you need to work some more on the page.

By: matiasn

matiasn — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:47:05 +0000

welly well. Still, keyword stuffed content is getting many sites to top positions.
its disgusting.
at matt cuts blog i ve just seen examples that are simply funny .. or ridiculous.

By: J Wynia

J Wynia — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:45:02 +0000

The key is that there is no one audience for a given HTML page. And, just because something’s not useful for one of those audiences, doesn’t mean that another doesn’t need it. The best pages combine and blend the needs of all of the audiences together.

I’ve been looking at using the Yahoo keyword extraction api to populate those tags as a reinforcement of the content of the page. We’ll see how it turns out.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:16:22 +0000

Fintan – not talking about tagging pages – but ‘metatags’ which is…. well just read the article I linked to – Yaro explains it.

By: Fintan

Fintan — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:43:50 +0000

Tagging pages is Web 2.0, surely?