Difference in meta tags

[rollingsta]

ok i have found out there is 3 types of meta tags.
i dont know which is the best to use.
theres the normal one i got
then theres a robot one
and an author one

thanks

[sandhuharv]

There's loads of meta tags including keywords and description one.

I use the Keywords and Description ones on my site.

[az87aris]

I use all meta tags you can think! Don't know if there any use for them?

[sandhuharv]

Meta Tags used to have a big impact to a sites ranking e.t.c but now it's not very dominant.

[Ilikefree]

On my new site (non-freebie), I use these! Dunno what half of them do!!

<meta name="Author" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="Copyright" content="" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="1day" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="" />
<meta name="classification" content="" />
<meta name="Robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="blendTrans(Duration=##)" />

[rollingsta]

i did a meta tag on my last site and a robots one with it.
they complained that i had too many keywords.
uggh i dont get it

[az87aris]

Originally Posted by rollingsta

i did a meta tag on my last site and a robots one with it.
they complained that i had too many keywords.
uggh i dont get it

Your only supposed to have around 20 keywords in your keywords meta tag, how many do you have?

[rollingsta]

only 20 but then 20 in robots too.

[az87aris]

Originally Posted by rollingsta

only 20 but then 20 in robots too.

You don't put keywords in the robots tag lol

[messyhead]

Originally Posted by rollingsta

only 20 but then 20 in robots too.

Your Robots tag is used to tell search bots what to do when they get to your site, e.g. follow/don't follow all links, index images or not etc, so putting keywords in the robots tag will just confuse the poor things and they could ignore the tag completely.