Re: Meta Tags

by "Keith Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>

 Date:  Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:11:15 -0400
 To:  <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
 References:  localhost localhost2
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Both good questions.  To be honest, I am not entirely certain of either
answer.  I don't think that they are case sensitive, but could be wrong.  I
am definitely NOT an authority on Meta tags, so would also appreciate input
from anyone that is.

Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Rumley" <trumley(at)softhome.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Meta Tags


> Hi Kieth and hwg;
>
> I found this in the page you suggested.
>
> <META name="robots" content="ALL">
>
> I thought it was supposed to be set up this way.
>
> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,follow">
>
> The robots meta tell the search engine spiders what it should do in regard
> to the page. Aren't two entries needed? The first to tell the spider to
> index a page or not. The second to tell the spider to follow the links in
> the page or not. The entries can be index and noindex or follow and
nofollow.
>
> A quick question too, are meta tags case sensitive? Does it matter that
> your tag is lower case and mine is upper? If I'm wrong here I'd appreciate
> some help :)
>
> Thomas
>    mailto:trumley(at)softhome.net
>    http://aboveboardlinks.com
>
>
>

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