Re: punctuation in meta tags

Barbara -
In '97 when I first was introduced (roughly) to doing web pages using Front
Page (while working for someone else), I called Submit It's search engine
company (while you could still get through by phone!). Submit It said that
it was proper to separate keywords/keyphrases with commas, making sure you
enclosed all in quotes. As far as I know, that is still the acceptable way
to do it unless another method has popped up that I'm not aware of. Hope
this helps!
Sharon
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Sharon F. Malone
http://www.24caratdesign.com
"web page design and Internet writing services"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Money" <bmoney(at)naisp.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: punctuation in meta tags


> "This does mean one should not even use commas to separate keywords."
>
> Huh? Some of the learned folks who make suggestions of how to submit to
> search engines (no, I'm not starting that thread up again!) strongly
> urge us to: Separate keywords with commas! Don't separate keywords with
> commas! Use commas and spaces! Use commas but no spaces! Use spaces but
> no commas! Runthemalltogether! (Kidding!)
>
> I have not had a page break from either using commas or not in keyword
> lists. I read somewhere that any text string used in code must be
> enclosed in quotes, because of spaces etc., so, conversely, anything in
> quotes must be a text string, and should be able to include punctuation.
>
> Am I right or not?
>
> Barbara Money
> The Essential Image
>
>

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