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    What META Tags do you use and why?

    I find I mostly just use Keywords and Descrption now...

    Looking at sites I've done a LONG time ago I see:

    <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
    <meta http-equiv="no-cache">
    <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-2">
    <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">

    <META name="resource-type" content="document">
    <META name="description" content="desc">
    <META name="keywords" content="kws">
    <META NAME="category" CONTENT="Recreation & Reference">
    <META NAME="author" CONTENT="ToddW">
    <META name="distribution" content="Global">
    <META NAME="reply-to" CONTENT="email@site.com">
    <META NAME="rating" CONTENT="Safe For Kids">
    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">
    <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="7 days">
    <META name="verify-v1" content="su2XgdRT5DXE2K2Ox/cl+hOtGrSbW10BJI9zwhMElck=" />

    What do you use and why?

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    I don't bother with anything but description/keywords.

    Why? I don't have a good reason. Most of them seem outdated and useless.

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    I sometimes use this one to get rid of that things which Windows XP pops-up over photos

    <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

    And Description, sometimes Keywords.
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    description, keywords, and revisit-after could be handy if you don't have google sitemaps.

    The others, especially reply-to are not needed.

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    revisit-after is useless. no search engine uses them. Plus Google sitemaps has that built into the sitemap so an extra meta tag wouldn't be necessary anyway.
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    description, keywords, imagetoolbar and MSSmartTagsPreventParsing are the ones I add.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
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    Here are the typical meta tags I use. Some are legacy, but oh well.

    <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <META http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
    <META NAME="copyright" content="1995-2007 Kenneth Barbalace">
    <META NAME="doc-rights" content="Copywritten Work">
    <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="{author's name}">
    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">
    <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="{page description}">
    <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="{page keywords}">
    <META NAME="language" content="en-US">
    <META NAME="revisit-after" content="15 days">
    <META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
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    Quote Originally Posted by KLB View Post
    <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <META http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
    Oh yeah I use these too, but forgot to add them to my list

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