FreeLists / webproducers / [webproducers] Re: my feedback, was New website

[Michael James Pinto <michaeljamespinto@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Christie Mason <cmason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll be interested to hear other opinions, I'm still under the impression
> that it helps to have your metatags, title, image tags and page text
> congruent and term repetitive.  Yes, it increasing your position to have
> other people link to your site.  Yes, it increases your position even more
> to pay for positioning.
> 
> Putting that aside for the moment.  You should still use image tags because
> there are still some people that turn off graphics and an image tag allows
> them to see what content the graphic would have conveyed.  Also screen
> readers for the visually handicapped use image tags to "see" the graphic.
> If you're in the USA and you receive federal/some state funds, you must be
> Section 508 compliant.  Part of that compliancy includes the requirement for
> image tags for screen readers.

I think your mixing up metatags with alt tags. Alt tags are must haves...

A metatag is a useless tag that goes at the start of a html doc which
is suppose to give an ovierview of the doc and/or keywords. The idea was
that a search engine would look at the meta tag and correctly index your 
website. The problem started when people starting abusing this to raise
their search ratings. Also google doesn't look at metatags but the actual
live text within the document.

But here is a good article:

http://websearch.about.com/library/weekly/aa112102a.htm

The Top 5 SEO Myths  
 
Part 1: It's all about the Meta Tags.  

Myth #1 - Meta Tags are the key to high rankings.

Five years ago, this might have been the case. Meta Tags were originally 
designed to provide
webmasters with a way to help search engines know what their site was about. It 
wasn't too long
before some webmasters tried to abuse this process by stuffing keywords into 
their tags in an
attempt to rank higher. Because of this abuse, engines placed less and less 
emphasis on the
content of Meta Tags. Today, nearly all of the major engines ignore them 
completely.

This isn't to say that it's not worth the extra few minutes it takes to add 
them to your site;
after all, Inktomi and some of the smaller engines still give some weight to 
their contents. Meta
Tags should be viewed as a very small part of SEO. It's best to focus your time 
and efforts on the
actual content and code of your site.








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