Re: Meta tags and Keyword usage

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Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:51:33 -0600 (CST)


# If you get this pressure from search engine operators, then responding
# affirmatively will increase the exposure that FAQs get to search users.
#
# In other words, it is a good idea.

Good. Glad to hear I not _totally_ crazy. ;-)

# Syntactically, it is appropriate to map from the 'keywords' headers
# in News: traffic to the 'keywords' META tag in HTML.
#
# There are policy pitfalls for faqs.org to serve as a cataloguer and
# apply keywords other than what the author said. Consider the PICS
# wars.

ACK! GAK! No. I did not mean that I would apply them here. The idea
was to get some semi-standard means of classifying things that AUTHORS
could use so they fit into catagories users will quickly understand.

# Your list is better than what people have been using, but even better
# would be to nurse out of the search-engine-operating community some
# suggestions of vocabulary that they feel is useful in terms of
# dividing
#
# a) all the available web content, and
# b) all the queries that search customers pose
#
# into roughly equal fragments. It is not a problem if there are a
# few keywords that everyone uses. What matter should be that most
# every document gets some keyword or another that tends to set it
# apart from the bulk of the Web.

Agreed.

With 500+ search engines... Anyone know of a search-engine-operators
mailing list where I could send a single message instead of 500+
messages ? :)

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