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#1 User is offline   william 

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Posted 16 January 2007 - 09:27 AM

Having a problem with a current site I'm doing - On some versions of IE6 my characters Teşekkür or 30ºC are showing as strange, not correct characters.

My page headings is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<meta http-equiv="Turkey, apartment, turkish, holiday, home, altinkum, " content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />


I take I must can't using the correct character encoding? :unsure:
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 09:29 AM

shouldn't this line:
<meta http-equiv="Turkey, apartment, turkish, holiday, home, altinkum, " content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
be this: 
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

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Posted 16 January 2007 - 09:48 AM

Excellent Ben thank you.

It looks like I've got confused on whereabouts I should be putting my Meta tags - I need to do my homework by the looks of it!
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 09:55 AM

Hehe no problem.

Remember, with meta tags, the http-equiv part of it says what the content part is related to... so it looked to me as if you had the keywords in the http-equiv part, when they need their own meta tag with the http-equiv of keywords and the content of your keywords...

if that made sense!
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 10:12 AM

Slightly off topic here, but I'd recommend not using keywords. Some say, "well, they don't hurt to use", but I say they do. They offer any competition you may have the exact terms you're hoping to get into the search engines under.

And we all know they don't do any good in regards to search engines.
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 10:52 AM

View Postherkalees, on Jan 16 2007, 10:12 AM, said:

Slightly off topic here, but I'd recommend not using keywords. Some say, "well, they don't hurt to use", but I say they do. They offer any competition you may have the exact terms you're hoping to get into the search engines under.

And we all know they don't do any good in regards to search engines.

Very true. Now a description on the other hand can be good for search engine results.
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 02:11 PM

They are used on some smaller search engines and onpage optimization is more important for yahoo and msn search. So i would use them.

As for the competiton, well its one thing for them to know what keywords your aiming for, its another for them to compete with you. :)
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 02:37 PM

View Postsypher, on Jan 16 2007, 02:11 PM, said:

So i would use them.

Am I misreading your reply, but you are saying you would use meta keywords? Or are you speaking strictly of onpage optimization (keywords within content)?

Can you give some concrete reasons to why? And what search engines it benefits to use keywords for?
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 02:51 PM

View Postherkalees, on Jan 16 2007, 03:12 PM, said:

They offer any competition you may have the exact terms you're hoping to get into the search engines under.

Thats a little daft, as many site checkers can calculate the keywords your aiming at.

View PostJPMitchell, on Jan 16 2007, 07:37 PM, said:

Can you give some concrete reasons to why? And what search engines it benefits to use keywords for?

Since the search engines use a wide variety of factors to determine site rankings, optimizing a page to rank high is a cumulative effort. You should use everything available to you that the engines might give some weight, and therefore you should certainly use meta tags (including the meta keyword tag), along with every other legitimate, acceptable technique available. At best, it may help boost your site a bit in those engines that still read them (source)

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Posted 16 January 2007 - 03:02 PM

View Postbenbramz, on Jan 16 2007, 07:51 PM, said:

Thats a little daft, as many site checkers can calculate the keywords your aiming at.
Since the search engines use a wide variety of factors to determine site rankings, optimizing a page to rank high is a cumulative effort. You should use everything available to you that the engines might give some weight, and therefore you should certainly use meta tags (including the meta keyword tag), along with every other legitimate, acceptable technique available. At best, it may help boost your site a bit in those engines that still read them (source)

Nuff said :)

And yeah, sorry if it was easy to mis-read. I was saying you should use meta tags (keywords and description)
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 03:03 PM

View Postbenbramz, on Jan 16 2007, 02:51 PM, said:

Thats a little daft, as many site checkers can calculate the keywords your aiming at.

That is true, but I'm thinking of Joe Badass who just started a business that offers the same service as yours. Assuming you're high up in the SERPS, he can find your site and view your source, giving him a direct list of your targeted keywords.

In most cases, I'd guess that Joe Badass isn't using any special software to scrape your content looking for your actual targeted keywords, he instead is probably looking for the meta keywords first.

View Postbenbramz, on Jan 16 2007, 02:51 PM, said:

At best, it may help boost your site a bit in those engines that still read them

No doubt, you're very correct there.
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 03:08 PM

View Postbenbramz, on Jan 16 2007, 02:51 PM, said:

At best, it may help boost your site a bit in those engines that still read them.

Enough of a reason for me.

How about at worse? hehe
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 07:44 PM

at worst, you waste a minute or two of your life...

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