Meta Tag Name:	HTML / XHTML / DHTML / eGMS / PICS / DC / W3C /
Example:
Recommendation:
Length: Minimum n/a Maximum n/a Recommended n/a
Description:
Comments:
Indexed by Google: unknown
Indexed by Yahoo: unknown
Indexed by MSN: unknown
Indexed by AOL: unknown
Other Examples:

HTML tag reference guide - <META name doc-class>
<META name doc-class> ... <meta name="doc-class" content="text">. Currently you
may include one of the following values. Completed Draft Living Document ...
www.html-reference.com/META_name_docclass.htm - 7k -

<META name doc-class>

Description

Attributes

Examples

Description:

This Metatag indicates the working state of document.

Attributes:

<meta name="doc-class" content="text">
	Currently you may include one of the following values. Completed Draft Living Document Published

Examples:

<meta name="doc-class" content="Completed">

Tells the world that your document is finished.

Felgall XHTML Reference part two
The following are some of the meta commands that you might use: ... <meta
name="doc-class" content="Completed" />; <meta name="doc-rights" ...
www.felgall.com/xhtml1.htm - 11k

<meta name="doc-type" content="Web Page" />
<meta name="doc-class" content="Completed" />
<meta name="doc-rights" content="Copywritten Work" />

Metatag Reference Chart What Do Metatags Do?
HTML tag reference guide - <META name doc-class> http://www.internet-tips.
net/HTML/META_name_docclass.htm HTML tag reference guide - <META name expires> ...
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From: Kristie

Date: 09/17/05 15:15:48

To: George Schaefer

Subject:

HTML tag reference guide - <META name doc-rights>
<META name doc-rights>. Description, Attributes, Examples ... <meta name="doc-rights"
content="Copywritten Work">. Tells the world that your document is ...
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Description:

This Metatag indicates the copyright status of the document.

Attributes:

<meta name="doc-rights" content="text">
	Currently you may include one of the following values. Copywritten Work Private Public Public Domain

Examples:

<meta name="doc-rights" content="Copywritten Work">

Tells the world that your document is copywritten

www.collectrarestuff.com - Free Link Exchange - Travel - Canada
... 1" meta name="language" content="en-ca" meta name="doc-type" content="web page"
meta name="doc-class" content="completed" meta name="doc-rights" content="copy ...
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Source der File /include/common/header.tmp.php


									<?php

									/* 

									* header.tmp.php

									* 

									* written by: Martin Gratzer

									* date: 22. July 2003

									* last change: 22. July 2003

									*/

									

									extract($_SERVER);

									extract($_ENV);

									extract($_GET);

									extract($_POST);

									extract($_REQUEST);

									

									include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/config.inc.php");

									include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/class/menu.class.inc.php");

									include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/class/mysql.class.inc.php");

									include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/class/user.class.inc.php");

									include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/functions.inc.php");

									include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/modules/Counter/counter.php");

									

									    $mysql
									= new 
									cphplib();

									    $isLogin=false;

									    $isadmin=false;

									    

									    if(!empty($_COOKIE['member_id']))

									    {

									        $mysql->dbConnect($config["dbhost"],$config["userdb"],$config["dbuser"],$config["dbpass"]);

									        $user
									= new 
									user($_COOKIE['member_id'],$mysql);
									

									        $mysql->dbClose($mysql->dbConnect($config["dbhost"],$config["userdb"],$config["dbuser"],$config["dbpass"]));

									        

									        $isadmin
									= 
									$user->MGroup==4;

									        $isLogin
									= 
									true;

									    }

									    else

									    {

									        $isadmin
									= 
									false;

									        $isClassPub
									= 
									false;

									        $isLogin
									= 
									false;

									    }

									        

									    $mysql->dbConnect($config["dbhost"],$config["db"],$config["dbuser"],$config["dbpass"]);

									    

									    if(!$maintenance)

									    {

									        $Menu
									= new 
									Menu($mysql);

									        $Menu->ShowMenu();

									    }

									

									    $maintenance
									= 
									$config["maintenance"] 
									&& parsePath($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])!="error"
									&& 
									$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']!="/admin/index.php";      

									?>

									<html>

									<head>

									<TITLE>PHP Labor | all about webcode and 
									-design, be inspired!</TITLE>

									<meta name="resource-type" 
									content="document">

									<meta http-equiv="pragma" 
									content="no-cache">

									<meta name="revisit-after" content="3">

									<meta name="classification" content="Web 
									Programming">

									<meta name="description" content="PHP-Laobor 
									all about coding! Österreichische 
									PHP-Community">

									<meta name="keywords" content="php, code, 
									webdesing, web, webcoding, website, 
									webseiten, web, java, csharp, dotnet, 
									dreamweaver, mysql, apache, linux, bsd, 
									unix, solaris, iis, webservice, webhosting, 
									php class, class, klassen, algorithmen, 
									labor, souce, php5, php 5, php4, php 4, 
									phpklassen, phpclass, php klassen, php 
									class, mysql database, mysql datenbanken, 
									php community, phpcommunity, homepage, 
									webdesign, scripts, code sample, sample, php 
									tutorials, php codeschnipsel, php code, php 
									programme, php tutorials, php hilfe">

									<meta name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">

									<meta name="distribution" content="Global">

									<meta name="rating" content="General">

									<meta name="copyright" content="PHP-Labor 
									Team 2003">

									<meta name="author" content="Martin 
									Gratzer">

									<meta http-equiv="reply-to" 
									content="webmaster@php-labor.at">

									<meta name="language" content="german">

									<meta name="doc-type" content="Web Page"">

									<meta name="doc-class" content="Published">

									<meta name="doc-rights" content="Public">

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

									<link 
									href="http://www.php-labor.at/include/css/PHPLabMain.css" 
									rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

									<?

									if(!$maintenance
									|| 
									$isadmin)

									    echo 
									"<SCRIPT language=JavaScript 
									src='http://www.php-labor.at/include/scripts/mmenu.js' 
									type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>";

									?>

									<SCRIPT language=JavaScript 
									src='http://www.php-labor.at/include/scripts/common.js' 
									type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>

									</head>

									<body>

									<div align="center"> 

									<table width="100%" border="0" 
									cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

									  <tr> 

									    <td 
									background="http://www.php-labor.at/images/phplab_head_02.jpg"><img 
									src="http://www.php-labor.at/images/phplab_head_01.jpg" 
									width="211" height="120"></td>

									    <td width="394" 
									background="http://www.php-labor.at/images/phplab_head_02.jpg"><img 
									src="http://www.php-labor.at/images/phplab_head_03.jpg" 
									width="394" height="120"></td>

									  </tr>

									  <tr> 

									    <td colspan="2" 
									background="http://www.php-labor.at/images/phplab_head_02.jpg">&nbsp; 
									</td>

									  </tr>

									</table>

									<br>

									<?

									if($maintenance
									&& !$isadmin)

									{

									echo '

									<table width="100%" border="0" 
									cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0">

									    <tr> 

									    <td width="120" valign="top">

									    </td>

									      <td width="1" bgcolor="#000000"><img 
									src="/images/spacer.gif" width="1" 
									height="1"></td>      

									    <td valign="top"><h1>Maintenance 
									Mode</h1>

									    ';

									          message("error",
									$config["maintmessage"]);

									echo '

									      </td>

									    </tr>

									  </table>

									       ';

									include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/common/footer.tmp.php");

									exit;

									}

									elseif($maintenance
									&& 
									$isadmin)

									    echo "<font 
									class=\"error\">REMEMBER !!!Site is in 
									maintenance mode!!!<font>";

									else

									?>

Meta Tags

Web Designing is a complex art. Especially when dealing with the codes it's all made from directly. The most important codes your site can have, no one but a machine ever sees, your Meta tags. What the heck is a Meta Tag ? The part of your site a search engine sees first. With it, you can tell the spider what to do, what to index and show a site description that says what you want it to say. Now the engine can and will crawl the site for all it contains, but this makes it a lot easier. In fact for most engines you cant even submit the site without having one. Now to break down what all this means:

HTML HEAD
META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type CONTENT=text/html iso-8859-1
In other words what is on here, words,images,mp3s ? So it knows right off what kind of information will be presented.

META NAME=title CONTENT=Art work for Sale...From Pagan and Proud of it !
The title,the most important bit you can add, for a long time my site was indexed as " index" , in other words as its file name, as I didn't know that I could title it differently.

META HTTP-EQUIV=Pragma content=no-cache
This one is a special one that tells the robot NOT to cache the site in the off-line browser cache, as I do artwork and don't want it saved on their hard drive. But for most sites you want it to cache it, which is the default, without this line it would do so automatically. If you want to protect images etc. however, you want this line in there.

META NAME=ROBOTS CONTENT=INDEX,FOLLOW
This tells it if you want it to follow and index all pages linked off the main page,its why its important to have links to everything you have on the main index page. Or at least links to pages full of those links as it will follow and keep indexing until it runs out of direct links.

META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Language CONTENT=en
" en " In this case just means what language.. English. Which is redundant as it should be in the doc type, which goes before the metas. See my article on html validation for more info.

META NAME=description CONTENT=Pagan Art work All the faces of the Mother, elements and more. From the Spiritual to the Sublime. Come take a peek and maybe buy a print or two. Blessings Be .. Esta. My wording for a description, not some line it pulled out of context and sticks up there, it will still do this from time to time but most of the time it will use this. Needless to say you have to give this a great deal of thought and time as you have very little space to " sell " the site.

META NAME=abstract CONTENT=Pagan Art work All the faces of the Mother, elements and more. From the Spiritual to the Sublime. Come take a peek and maybe buy a print or two. Blessings Be .. Esta.The same thing here only more concise, for those engines who have more space limits.This is again a bit redundant, but some older spiders want it.

META NAME=keywords
CONTENT=pagan,,art,,Great,Art, mother,elements,spiritual Pagan, prints,proud,web,header,design,great, designer,site, Mother, gallery,postcard,poster

Keywords, of mega importance, what words that relate to your site a person is likely to plug into an engine search box when they are looking for something. You must be sure that the words you use here are ON your site. Also note there must be spaces between your commas in the set up or the engines will see this string of words, as one long multi syllable word.You will notice some words are in there twice, in lower and upper case, this is deliberate and not spamming the engine. This is because to the spider, art and Art are two different words. So your important words should be there in both upper and lower case. Your most important words should be first. Upper and lower case repeats should not be near each other if possible.

META NAME=author CONTENT=
META NAME=publisher CONTENT=Esta Weiss
META NAME=copyright
CONTENT=Esta Weiss

These tell it who wrote it, very often the same person, but not always.

META NAME=rating
CONTENT=General
Ok now , this one tells it what classification to put it under. General means just that, anyone can look, if its adult material you need to specify that.There are several categories it can be placed under. For general this is not really needed, but there are special classes where this becomes important to list.

META HTTP-EQUIV=Reply-to CONTENT=esta@dslextreme.com
This one is the one and only place you should have an unguarded email address. And you can delete this line if you want.

META NAME=creation_Date
CONTENT=08/03/2003
Simple one, of what date was the page or the tag created.

META NAME=expires CONTENT=
This is for time limited things, that have a given life span, special events etc. If your site does not have a limited life, you leave the space blank , but this line should be there.

META NAME=revisit-after
CONTENT=2 days
How often do you want the spider to come back and re index the site? Default is 2 weeks, as you can see I have set mine much higher as I add content all the time and the site would be badly out of date on the engines if I left it at default.

META NAME=doc-rights CONTENT=Copywritten work
META NAME=doc-class CONTENT=Completed
Self explanatory.

META NAME=MSSmartTagsPreventParsing content=true
This is another one of those special tags, that deals solely with Microsoft Network.. as they tend to put in " smart tags" when they index your site thereby changing it, this prevents that.

TITLE Art work for Sale...From Pagan and Proud of it !TITLE
And this is the title that shows on your page at the header,if done right this is the only part of a meta tag that shows anywhere.

Ok now how do you make this complex thing? I cheat myself, I have a friend who has on his site a meta tag generator, you fill in the blanks and it makes the tag. I could write it myself, but why. There are a million such generators out there, most of them free, just plug the words meta tag generator into any search engine and you will get lots of them. I like this one which comes from Scott Hough at http://www.templatesforall.com/index.php?id=meta

Now do you need ALL of this, no, these are just some of the more common options all you really need, is title, description, character set and robot info and you can do without the last.
Spiders are not as dependant on the metas as they once where.

Every page by rights should have a Meta tag like this, but the index page that the spider comes to first MUST have it.

I hope this helps explain a bit about this very important, but very misunderstood and complex looking, part of your web site.