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Metatags Relevance
OK from what i know.... metatags are used by google.... here is a quick reference without looking for substance:
"Googlebot obeys either, but meta tags apply to single pages only"
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...googlebot.html
If metadata is not important, why is it taught? Why dont you provide evidence to back up your claim? How do searches function if they do not use metatags?
Tool
Now another interesting site.... This one claims to be able to emulate a spiders algorithm output as it sees your site. I want to look up the definition of spider here but im not going to. Webmaster-talk uses keywords:
Meta-Keywords: webmaster forum, web design forum, coding forum, hosting forum, webmaster forums, webmaster
and then of course its cool because you can "extract the keywords"
like
http://oyoy.eu/page/keywords/?url=ht...aster-talk.com
The tool:
http://oyoy.eu/page/spider/?ua=&url=...aster-talk.com
Lets discuss these sites (google blog and oyoy in relation to SEO).
IFMODIFIEDSINCE Signifigance; Context; Code
Oh there is a couple of other interesting things... if anyone such as chris or christ would like to comment on
first is oyoy's interesting ifmodifiedsince tester.... arent we meant to include code for ifmodifiedsince? I tested one site i know does not have that code... and it tests result 200, what is the signifigance of ifmodifiedsince in the context of an html or web interface page, and exactly what format does one write it in, within for instance, a transitional html document? code?
Google Blog Script, probably adding search module, Can we learn anything here relevant to SEO? Maybe not?
If anyone would like to look at the script on that google webmaster site...
Just from looking at the code (feel free to correct me if im wrong), not the site, this seems to be a script which adds google search box to the blog site, it seems that it might offer different search options (within the blog, within the web etc). I wonder if there is anything that can be learnt here which could help us to improve our own seo... I see it makes references to the searcher, searcher. etc
What does this mean
searcher.setSiteRestriction("010222979794876194725 :abdomvzqczg");
is it loading a size into the array.... maybe not... Anyone?
CODE:
script src='http://www.google.com/uds/api?file=uds.js&v=1.0&key=ABQIAAAAGe7PxO_cWM9yMd6i ldkwxBQB-lgBGc7c8kPNvhnjM5YgBILVQBREChuf4qx3V2vAw6jKsJqcRFC 0Sw' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script language='Javascript' type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
function OnLoad() {
var controlRoot = document.getElementById("searchResults");
// Create a search control
var searchControl = new GSearchControl();
searchControl.setLinkTarget(GSearch.LINK_TARGET_SE LF);
searchControl.setResultSetSize(GSearch.LARGE_RESUL TSET);
// Tell the searcher to draw itself and tell it where to attach
var searchFormElement = document.getElementById("searchcontrol");
var drawOptions = new GdrawOptions();
drawOptions.setSearchFormRoot(searchFormElement);
drawOptions.setDrawMode(GSearchControl.DRAW_MODE_T ABBED);
// This Blog
var searcher = new GwebSearch();
searcher.setSiteRestriction("
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/");
searcher.setUserDefinedLabel("This Blog");
searchControl.addSearcher(searcher);
// Official Google Blogs
var searcher = new GwebSearch();
searcher.setSiteRestriction("010222979794876194725 :abdomvzqczg");
searcher.setUserDefinedLabel("Google Blogs");
searchControl.addSearcher(searcher);
// the web
searcher = new GwebSearch();
searchControl.addSearcher(searcher);
// all blogs
searcher = new GblogSearch();
searchControl.addSearcher(searcher);
// news
searcher = new GnewsSearch();
searchControl.addSearcher(searcher);
// draw it
searchControl.draw(controlRoot, drawOptions);
}
//function registerLoadHandler(handler) {
// var node = window;
// if (node.addEventListener) {
// node.addEventListener("load", handler, false);
// } else if (node.attachEvent) {
// node.attachEvent("onload", handler);
// } else {
// node['onload'] = handler;
// }
// return true;
//}
//registerLoadHandler(OnLoad);
//]]>
</script>
You never know who really is behind the profiles... 
