The tag is in the "head" section of your document.Originally Posted by Nashvegas
<meta name="abstract" content="HummerHomes provide complete Middle Tennessee and Nashville real estate service and information in buying and selling real estate properties like condo, townhouse, or a multi-million dollar estate home in Brentwood, Franklin, Cool Springs, Murfreesboro, Green Hills, Belle Meade, and Forest Hills Areas">
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05-22-2005 07:19 PM #21
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05-22-2005 07:29 PM #22
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Is it bad to have both a meta content and a meta abstract?
Last edited by Nashvegas; 05-22-2005 at 07:44 PM.
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05-22-2005 07:46 PM #23
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The only two (2) "Meta Tags" I routinely use are "Description" and "Keywords" Originally Posted by Nashvegas
I also noticed the following meta data in your page:
<meta name="abstract" content="...">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<meta name="author" content="Agent Image - Real Estate Web Site Design">
IMO, the "Abstract" and "Author" tags will not help you SEO wise.
Instead of using a "Robots" tag on each page you might consider using a "robots.txt" for general use.
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05-22-2005 07:55 PM #24
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I also noticed you're missing a document type [DOCTYPE] declaration.
Example:
If you're interested here is a fun read.<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
W3C: The global structure of an HTML document.
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05-22-2005 08:21 PM #25
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Although I/we do not use "AUTHOR", we do use the rest, PLUS some special ones for the unique engines:
<meta name="msnbot" content="nocache">
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE,NOSNIPPET">
<meta name="robots" content="index,noarchive,follow,all">
<meta name="revisit" content="3 days">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="3 days">
I am sternly against allowing the search engines to cache/archive most of the site, especially listings. They can index all they want, but it's very problematic when long-sold listings appear in Google's cache for full review.
In some cases, some search engines (MSN, I believe) will use the meta abstract instead of a snippet, particularly in cases where no matching text was found for search on the page, but rather in links leading to it.
HTH,
-Matt
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05-23-2005 08:06 AM #26
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Thanks guys, I have forwarded most of these questions to our guy at AgentImage to see if they know any of the answers (just curious I guess). They should be giving me full access to the site soon and I will make these changes myself at that point.
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