Re: Meta Tags....??? Help

In a message dated 08/10/00 00:49:21 GMT Daylight Time, 
jeremy(at)localnetamerica.com writes:

> Another site that has been listed for several
>  months now is http://www.buddybar.com

I tried searching for "Cargo Bars Retainers" and found:

- Buddy Bar site was ranked first by AltaVista and Excite
- wasn't found at all by Yahoo, Lycos, Go.com or Metacrawler
- if they found it at all, it didn't figure in the top 50 on HotBot, Google 
or Webcrawler

Looking at the meta tags, I'd suspect that some program is used to produce 
them, i.e. you input a few relevant keywords, and it spits out plural and 
past tense versions of the words, hence nonsense like "Lockses Truckses 
Cargos Barses Retainerses" (how much use is that?). A number of the tags are 
Dublin Core meta tags which I don't think are supported by many if any of the 
major search engines, so I reckon the most imoprtant are the good old 
keywords and description tags for which the usual guidelines regarding 
spamming and relevancy should apply.

I'm curious about the <META NAME="VW96.objecttype"...> tag. Any suggestions, 
anyone?

Keith Bell

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