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<meta name=> tags
Topic Started: Mar 4 2005, 08:03 PM (501 Views)
doom89 Mar 4 2005, 08:03 PM Post #1
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 What is the whole purpose of <meta name=> tags?
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Jory Mar 4 2005, 09:05 PM Post #2
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 google it.
(i'm getting more then enough sites, in lots of different languages)

this should help you
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EvilSteve Mar 4 2005, 09:12 PM Post #3
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Technically, meta just means "additional data about a webpage." There's different purposes for a meta tag depending on its attributes. The most common uses for meta tags are probably:


To give your webpage a description

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<meta name="Description" content="This is a description of my webpage">


Some search engines might use this description when indexing your page, and some browsers store this description when you bookmark a page.


To associate keywords with your webpage

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<meta name="Keywords" content="webpage, html, http, meta, tag">


Some search engines may take these keywords into account when someone searches for your page.


To perform a client-side redirect

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.mysite.com/OtherPage.html">


This will make the browser load "OtherPage.html" after a 3 second delay.
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mathiaus Mar 5 2005, 02:57 PM Post #4
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 Most of them are for improving your sites position in search engines such as google. They also provide special effects such as the redirection and page trasitions!
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Jack O'Neil Mar 5 2005, 05:52 PM Post #5
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 You could pretty much use any meta tag right? I mean:

<meta name="Hoo" content="Ha">

Isn't wrong....is it?
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EvilSteve Mar 6 2005, 01:44 PM Post #6
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Yeah, I guess you could do that. According to the HTML specs, I think you're free to add your own types of meta data if you choose:

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This specification does not define a set of legal meta data properties.
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