meta tags and charsets

[geekgirl]

Hi can anyone shed any light on the order of meta tags and which charset to use. I haven't really got to the bottom of these yet.

I understand what meta tags are about but I still haven't had charsets spelled out in non 'techie' speak.

Does it matter which order the meta tags go in? Should I include the meta tags and charset on every page?

The page I am working on is http://www.wills-treesurgery.co.uk

Cheers Alison.

[motorwatchercounter]

Hi Geekgirl,

Have a look at my generator;

www.motorwatcher.net/tag/index.php

Forum topic (so far) applies.

http://forum.statcounter.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2973

Use tags on each page but alter the keyword and desc. to relate to the page. Make sure all pages are linked to allow search engines to look at all.

:lol:

[geekgirl]

Thanks for your help. I have updated the index page, now for the others...

:wink:

[hdtvtechno]

u have some far off spaces in your meta tag keywords :)

[geekgirl]

Hi, Could you explain what you mean by far off spaces in my meta tags.
It is really nice to have all of this help available to me. Thanks.

[Arne]

Talking about meta tags, this is one that's not nessecery
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

Why not, you probably ask? :)
Well, that's because SE robots always follows all links it find on a page even without that meta. I have never used meta tags like that.

Only if you don't want the robots to index and follow the links, you need a meta tag about that ("nofollow"). But not even then all robots will obey that, but it's an other question 8)

[webado]

Hi, Could you explain what you mean by far off spaces in my meta tags.
It is really nice to have all of this help available to me. Thanks.
Take a look at your page's code by clicking on View>Source in the browser menu at the top. Maximize the window you get and you'll see lots of extra spaces in the keywords and description meta tags content.

[geekgirl]

Thanks Arne I have taken out the <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />.

Cheers Alison.