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Just to clarify, and the reason I started my reply with "everyone has an 
opinion" :  my advice is based on current performance-based research. 
Not theory, not future projections, not relative to yesterday,  but what 
works today (with "works" defined as a performance metric - 
customer-facing user interface issues, search marketing/SEO, and the 
like). If I build a site today... this is what I would do.

I don't view this as OT but respect the list's opinion on that. It is 
not OT for me because I am forever asking PHP coders to *start* with an 
assumption that meta data is dynamic (not static), that link attributes 
are dynamic (not static with default values) etc etc etc. IMHO PHP is 
great for the power it provides, and not so great for the power it hands 
over to the PHP coder (vs the page designer or website designer or 
business strategist).

-=john andrews




Peter Sawczynec ps-at-pswebcode.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:

>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-8
>4A9809EC588EF21&catID=2
>
>In the above article "The Semantic Web" by Tim Berners-Lee he essentially
>presents that meta data (data about data) will be a vital component in the
>intricately interconnected Internet that will lift Web 2.0 into a new realm.
>
>
>So just to keep in spirit with his forward looking premise, I use all the
>META tags that I can get my hands on. I try not to overload the tags, but I
>use them nonetheless.
>
>Whatever, take a read of the article as it provides some intriguing
>perspectives on why we are programming what we program.
>
>Warmest regards,
> 
>Peter Sawczynec,
>Technology Director
>PSWebcode
>_Design & Interface
>_Ecommerce
>_Database Management
>ps at pswebcode.com
>718.796.1951
>www.pswebcode.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
>Behalf Of tedd
>Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 6:30 PM
>To: NYPHP Talk
>Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] OT - meta tags
>
>
>  
>
>>michael lists-at-genoverly.net |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I have a client that someone has convinced that gobs of meta tags in 
>>>the headers is vital to the success of their website.  I'm happy to 
>>>comply, but, aren't some of these meta tags soooo 90's?
>>>
>>>  <meta name="robots" content="" />
>>>  <meta name="description" content="" />
>>>  <meta name="keywords" content="" />
>>>  <meta name="category" content="" />
>>>  <meta name="author" content="" />
>>>  <meta name="date" content="" />
>>>  <meta name="updated" content="" />
>>>  <meta name="copyright" content="" />
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>everyone has an opinion :-)
>>
>>Numbering them from the top down.
>>
>>#1 is a very useful tool, but not when it's empty
>>#2 is essential
>>#3 is very, very useful
>>#4 I never use
>>#5 I never use
>>#6 I never use
>>#7 I never use
>>#8 is a legal technicality I rarely use, but has a place and is used by 
>>some scanners.
>>
>>-=john andrews
>>    
>>
>
><opinion off-topic>
>Meta tags used to be important, but much less so these days and even 
>less so tomorrow. They were a way to provide a short cut to what the 
>site was about, but now for several reasons, they aren't very 
>important any longer.
></opinion off-topic>
>
>tedd
>  
>


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