Hey guys, I have a question about meta tags, I am going to post two of them that i dont understand <meta name="ROBOTS" content="FOLLOW,INDEX"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> on the first one, i dont understand the robots part and on the seconf one what is the whole charset=iso-8859-1 mean also, any tips on how to best utilize meta tags

i can help you with the first only the robots tag directs the search engine spiders as to what to do when they reach the web page that contains the robots tag the tag you have show tells the spider that you want that web page indexed ie. added to the search engine listings and that you want the spider to follow up all the links found on the page - this FOLLOW tag is great if you want your whole web site indexed from the home page hope that makes sense serge

Guide to the Robots META tag What is the ISO-8859-1 character set? The robots <meta> tag is pretty useless nowadays because most crawlers ignore it. Even if you do tell it to "follow" and "index" your site, it would've done it anyway which just makes it redundant. The second <meta> example you gave is to tell the web browser that the page it is accessing is in the ISO-8859-1 character set. As explained on the page I linked to, ISO-8859-1 is the character set used by most English-speaking countries in Western Europe. However, defining the character set and MIME type (text/html) in a <meta> tag is deprecated and your web server should do this anyway.

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