[ms_khw]

I was told that my meta tags should follow the format below. Does this benefit me in anyway? Is it a wise practice to follow or should I just go with the description and keywords?

Example:

<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en">
<meta name="abstract" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<meta name="cache-control" content="cache">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="distribution" content="Local">
<meta name="document-distribution" content="Local">
<meta name="document-rating" content="General">
<meta name="document-rights" content="Copywritten work">
<meta name="document-state" content="static">

<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="mssmarttagspreventparsing" content="true">
<meta name="publisher" content="">
<meta name="rating" content="General">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">

<meta name="publisher" content="">
<meta name="rating" content="General">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">

[tomdkat]

I don't think you need multiple "robots", "resource-type, or "rating" META tags.

I don't know about the others, other than description and keywords.

Peace...

[maneetpuri]

Yes, you are right because <meta name="robots" content=""> is required if you want your page not to be indexed in the search engines databasae and want to prevent it to be shown in serps (search engine results pages) by the SE, means you do not want your visitors to be landed on your website through a particular page.

For example, you have a printer friendly pages on your website, which have same content on it like your regular website page and you don't want the printer friendly page to be indexed to prevent duplicity on your website content,

Cheers,

[ms_khw]

I do want my page indexed and any that it is linked to with some exceptions (I've added a robot txt file). So everything is required that I've written is required then?

[maneetpuri]

Hi

There is no harm in adding these many meta tags in your pages as these are the instructions to search engine robots to get your pages crawl and index properly. So the value you are passing for each tag should be right according to your page requirement.

Hope this helps,

[KeithKman]

Some will argue "keywords" are not needed since Google doesn't acknowledge them anymore.

[tomdkat]

I will disagree with those who argue that since Google isn't the online search engine in use.

Peace...

[KeithKman]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

I will disagree with those who argue that since Google isn't the online search engine in use.

Peace...

I agree. I include them on my site. I was just saying.