Uncovered Content Meta Tag

When it comes to Meta Tags, there are many opinions floating around the web. Let me tell you, if you are looking at gaining a distinct advantage with Meta Tags, I have news for you: It isn't 1999 anymore.

So, what Meta Tags are worth injecting in your site for the basis of search engine optimization?

There are four types of Meta Content:

1. Content Language
2. Content Script Type
3. Content Style Type
4. Content Type

1. Meta Content Language :: May be used to declare the natural language of the document. May be used by robots to categorize by language.

 

Recommendation :: Use this tag only if your webpage is written in non-US English. While we have not tested this to ensure it works, we have had reports from our members that it does indeed help in relation to being cataloged properly by search engines.

2. Meta Content Script Type :: Specifies the default scripting language of the document.

Recommendation :: Do not use. Search engines do not need this tag to detect scripts, they can do so on their own. Browsers do not use this tag either as they have other detection methods in place.

3. Meta Content Style Type :: Specifies the default style sheet (Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS) language for a document.

Recommendation :: Do not use. Search engines do not need to know the style sheet. Web browsers also do not look to the meta tags for the style sheet information.

4. Meta Content Type :: It is now recommended to always use this tag even if you use a DTD declaration above the Header. Failure to do so may cause display problems where, for instance, the document uses UTF-8 punctuation characters but is displayed in ISO or ASCII charsets.

http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Recommendation :: Use this tag along with the DTD declaration format from the World Wide Web Consortium.

Fun Facts :: This META tag was an absolute must back when Netscape Navigator was a browser that people actually used. If this tag wasn't used, the page would often "blow up" and look distorted. This tag forced Netscape to load the appropriate character set before displaying the page, thus displaying the page correctly.

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