|  | Posted by El Kabong on 04/22/07 01:54 
"Bergamot" <bergamot@visi.com> wrote in message news:58vs6lF2j29qiU1@mid.individual.net...
 > No, that looks like appropriate alt text for that particular image. BTW,
 > you didn't mention which meta tag in particular you were referring to.
 > Search engines don't use "meta keywords" any more. Some do show any
 > defined "meta description" in search results pages, but that text isn't
 > indexed.
 >
 > --
 > Berg
 
 Well, you know what? These search engine people seem to be deliberately
 trying to confuse us hillbilly coders.
 
 For instance, here's what I usually drop in on my pages, but always on the
 index page:
 
 <META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="ALL,FOLLOW,INDEX">
 <META NAME="Revisit-After" CONTENT="30 Days">
 <META NAME="Distribution" CONTENT="Global">
 <TITLE></TITLE> [max length: 12 words]
 <META NAME="Description" CONTENT=""> [max length: 25 words]
 <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT=""> [max length: 10 words or phrases]
 <META NAME="Title" CONTENT=" "> [same as <TITLE> above]
 <META NAME="Copyright" CONTENT="©">
 <META NAME="Subject" CONTENT="">
 <META NAME="Language" CONTENT="English">
 <META NAME="Designer" CONTENT="">
 <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="">
 <META NAME="Publisher" CONTENT="">
 
 Now I have no idea whether any of these has any effect at all on the search
 engines (some are mysteriously redundant) but I usually get fair results, as
 long as I copy and paste strings of characters from the page content into
 the appropriate tags. Probably the only three tags that ever did have any
 potency were Title, Description and Keywords, but I wouldn't want to bet
 anybody anything that any of them still do or don't.
 
 But, like I said, as long as I seem to get results, I'll keep on cluttering
 up my header with this kind of trivia.
 
 And looking confused.
 
 El
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