Re: "hidden text" vs. META tags for robots/search engines

Chad Zimmerman (czimmerm@nmsu.edu)
Sat, 14 Sep 1996 10:02:05 -0600 (MDT)

I had a typo in the url I posted, it should be:
http://www.nmsu.edu/~czimmerm/New/meta-tags.html (I forgot the s at the
end).

Chad

On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Martin Kiff wrote:

> At 10:48 AM 9/6/96, Todd Sellers wrote:
> >I am web content provider, and I've been using the
> > <META NAME="description" CONTENT="...">
> >and
> > <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="word1 word2 word3 ... wordn">
> >tags to assist robots in indexing my content in search engines.
>
> I know that <META HTTP-EQUIV="..."...> is supposed to encompass <META
> NAME="..."...> (and that few, if any, HTTP servers do actually serve
> this information in a HEAD request) but anybody know whether search
> engines treat NAME and HTTP-EQUVI equivalently?
>
> --
> Martin Kiff
> mgk@webfeet.co.uk
>

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