Re: Meta tags and Keyword usage
Martin Leese - OMG (mleese@omg.unb.ca)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 17:56:16 -0400 (AST)
Kent Landfield <kent@landfield.com> wrote:
...
>> I've been getting requests to add META tages to the HTML FAQ pages here.
>> The intent is to categorize FAQs in such a way as to make the search
>> engine index databases more accurately reflect the content of the FAQs.
>> I'm not really sure what a good high level categorization scheme would be.
>> Initially I went through the FAQ archive and grabbed the Keywords: headers
>> out to see if the Keywords could be used.
...
>> The Keywords header could be used for this but I'm sort of hoping for some
>> agreed to top-level scheme. Because of its previous usage I suspect it would
I suspect I have failed to understand something. If a keyword header
exists then I don't understand why this shouldn't be used as a HTML
META keyword entry. These perform the same function - in my FAQ,
which is maintained in HTML, they *are* the same. I would object if
your META keyword entry differed from my keyword header.
If you want people to agree on a way of automatically creating a META
keyword entry when there is no keyword header, then I suspect you are
out-of-luck. If somebody cares about keywords then they will have
taken the trouble to include a keyword header. If they don't care
about keywords enough to include a keyword header, then why would they
care how you create a META keyword entry for them?
Regards,
Martin
E-mail: mleese@unb.ca
WWW: http://www.omg.unb.ca/~mleese/
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