The perfect meta tags

[temi]

What do you think a perfect meta tag should contains, I do not mean the actual contents but the files for example, I think this are the three most important requirements


Title:
Description:
keywords:

There is often debate as to whether other like follow, cache etc are relevant.
What do you think?

[OldWelshGuy]

You must have a DTD, title tag, ideally description tag also KW is ok for smaller directories, but IMO is more worry than worth, as to do it properly you need a different set for each page.

[hsc-online]

i think Title: and Description: most important paty. keywords not important anymore. Use ALT also.

[Bagi Zoltán]

Additionally i would mention the importance of the meta language tag which can help the geo targetting.

[midlandi]

Additionally i would mention the importance of the meta language tag which can help the geo targetting.

Not heard of this Bagi, can you gives us an example of how this would be written please.

[Bagi Zoltán]

There are some factors which are involved in calculating the relevance for the different geo locations. The language meta tag is one of them.

meta http-equiv=”language” content=”country code"

You can select the suitable language code at this page.

[midlandi]

Great info Bagi, thanks...sent some green

[Bagi Zoltán]

Thank you, i recognised them

[temi]

So are we saying this is what the perfect meta tag look like?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" Content="en">
<title>UK WW - Perfect Meta Tags</title>
<meta name="description" content="This is what a perfect meta tag contain.">
<meta name="keywords" content="UK WW, perfect meta tags, testing, temi.">
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico">
<link href="perfectmetatags.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css"> (if your site use CSS)

[maldives]

Here are my suggestions Temi.

<title>Minimal Keywords | No ands | Don't repeat.</title>
<meta name="description" content="repeat your keywords, but make the sentence logical for a human read">
<meta name="keywords" content="simply, group, of keywords, separated by commas, again use keywords from title and description">

Over all: Don't stuff tags with keywords. :seal: