[KLUG Members] Meta Tags, Key Words and Search Engines.. Oh My!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>Being fresh to the land of HTML, I was wondering if I could get some
>of you more experienced folk out there to give me the scoop on Meta Tags
>and Keywords as they relate to search engines.  I've been reading some
>varying stories, so I'd like some input from the group to help me
>muddle through this complex yet necessary topic.
> Right now this is the Meta Tag I have along with the page title... 
>  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1">

Right, this says that the body data is HTML.   The "content" field is a mime
type, so it could be image/jpeg, text/plain, model/vrml,
application/x-dia-diagram, application/edifact, application/vnd.ms-excel,
application/x-staroffice-words, text/tab-separated-values,
application/x-palm-database, text/x-sql, etc...  It is what gives the web it's
"multimedia" capability.

> Want to look futher?  www.cvalaw.com

How about:
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/presentations/19990824/index.html

Meta tags would be a good topic for a September presentation (two slots open :).
 Or xHTML, DHTML, Javascript, etc...

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