Imaginary Landscape
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I see the above empty meta tags on Web pages with disturbing frequency. If a page is going to bother having a placeholder for such things, it seems prudent to actually put something there.
The usefulness of the description and keywords meta tags is hotly contested and often speculative. Since search engine algorithms are protected as zealously as the formula for Coca-Cola, the search engine optimization (SEO) industry is left to infer the utility of meta tags. Perhaps certain "lesser known" search engines make use of them, some say. Every once in ...
Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:06AM CDT by brian
Categories: Technology
