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[tedd]

>michael lists-at-genoverly.net |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:
>
>>I have a client that someone has convinced that gobs of meta tags in the
>>headers is vital to the success of their website.  I'm happy to comply,
>>but, aren't some of these meta tags soooo 90's?
>>
>>   <meta name="robots" content="" />
>>   <meta name="description" content="" />
>>   <meta name="keywords" content="" />
>>   <meta name="category" content="" />
>>   <meta name="author" content="" />
>>   <meta name="date" content="" />
>>   <meta name="updated" content="" />
>>   <meta name="copyright" content="" />
>>
>> 
>>
>everyone has an opinion :-)
>
>Numbering them from the top down.
>
>#1 is a very useful tool, but not when it's empty
>#2 is essential
>#3 is very, very useful
>#4 I never use
>#5 I never use
>#6 I never use
>#7 I never use
>#8 is a legal technicality I rarely use, but has a place and is used by
>some scanners.
>
>-=john andrews

<opinion off-topic>
Meta tags used to be important, but much less so these days and even 
less so tomorrow. They were a way to provide a short cut to what the 
site was about, but now for several reasons, they aren't very 
important any longer.
</opinion off-topic>

tedd
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