[Sigia-l] Dublin Core and meta-tag length

[Avi Rappoport]

>I have two questions from a client:
>
>1. How prevalent is the Dublin Core in use?
>The client is already using DC for their intranet, but is looking 
>for figures on how widespread it is for external corporate sites.

It seems pretty rare, unless the external site is using DC tags for 
content management.  Tim B-L's semantic web is getting started slowly.

>2. Is there a maximum number or total length for meta-tags before 
>the search engines start ignoring the tags?
>We're planning a set of tags to enable the corporate search engine 
>to connect multiple "site-lets" and the external SEO folks raised 
>this as a flag.

Shouldn't be a problem if you put meta Keywords and Description tags 
first.  Search engine robot parsers are used to going through many 
lines of Javascript junk before the actual content occurs, so they 
don't worry too much about miscellaneous other tags.   Google, the 
most important public webwide search engine, ignores meta tags anyway.

HTH,

Avi
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