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	<title>Comments on: Worthless Meta Tags used by SEO&#160;Companies</title>
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		<title>By: kmd</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-1271702</link>
		<dc:creator>kmd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was browsing my source codes and noticed on every page my SEO company had inputted their name and url in a meta name tag. Is this normal? The &lt;title&gt; and my meta name &quot;description&quot; and &quot;keywords&quot; is right above this section.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;robots&quot; content=&quot;index,follow&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;Web Design and Search Engine Optimization by&quot; content=&quot;Xxxx xxxx &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.xxxxxxxxx.com&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta content=&quot;General&quot; name=&quot;rating&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta content=&quot;document&quot; name=&quot;resource-type&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta content=&quot;global&quot; name=&quot;distribution&quot;&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was browsing my source codes and noticed on every page my SEO company had inputted their name and url in a meta name tag. Is this normal? The &lt;title&gt; and my meta name &#8220;description&#8221; and &#8220;keywords&#8221; is right above this section.</p>
<p>&lt;meta name=&#8221;robots&#8221; content=&#8221;index,follow&#8221;&gt;<br />&lt;meta name=&#8221;Web Design and Search Engine Optimization by&#8221; content=&#8221;Xxxx xxxx <a href="http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com%22" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com</a>&#8220;&gt;<br />&lt;meta content=&#8221;General&#8221; name=&#8221;rating&#8221;&gt;<br />&lt;meta content=&#8221;document&#8221; name=&#8221;resource-type&#8221;&gt;<br />&lt;meta content=&#8221;global&#8221; name=&#8221;distribution&#8221;&gt;</p>
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		<title>By: kmd</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-1237777</link>
		<dc:creator>kmd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was browsing my source codes and noticed on every page my SEO company had inputted their name and url in a meta name tag. Is this normal? The &lt;title&gt; and my meta name &quot;description&quot; and &quot;keywords&quot; is right above this section.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;robots&quot; content=&quot;index,follow&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;Web Design and Search Engine Optimization by&quot; content=&quot;Xxxx xxxx &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.xxxxxxxxx.com&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta content=&quot;General&quot; name=&quot;rating&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta content=&quot;document&quot; name=&quot;resource-type&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;meta content=&quot;global&quot; name=&quot;distribution&quot;&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was browsing my source codes and noticed on every page my SEO company had inputted their name and url in a meta name tag. Is this normal? The &lt;title&gt; and my meta name &#8220;description&#8221; and &#8220;keywords&#8221; is right above this section.</p>
<p>&lt;meta name=&#8221;robots&#8221; content=&#8221;index,follow&#8221;&gt;<br />&lt;meta name=&#8221;Web Design and Search Engine Optimization by&#8221; content=&#8221;Xxxx xxxx <a href="http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com%22" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com</a>&#8220;&gt;<br />&lt;meta content=&#8221;General&#8221; name=&#8221;rating&#8221;&gt;<br />&lt;meta content=&#8221;document&#8221; name=&#8221;resource-type&#8221;&gt;<br />&lt;meta content=&#8221;global&#8221; name=&#8221;distribution&#8221;&gt;</p>
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		<title>By: Automotive Social Network</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-1077835</link>
		<dc:creator>Automotive Social Network</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 01:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Worthless meta tags are simply building the size of your webpage. However, it really depends on which search engines we are looking at.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Worthless meta tags are simply building the size of your webpage. However, it really depends on which search engines we are looking at.</p>
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		<title>By: Car Social Network</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-1076659</link>
		<dc:creator>Car Social Network</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reduce the page size does help in ranking most of my websites. Noticed significant rank changes over the week.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reduce the page size does help in ranking most of my websites. Noticed significant rank changes over the week.</p>
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		<title>By: kac</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-1021062</link>
		<dc:creator>kac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>good post, i was really searching for post regarding Meta tag, to gain more knowledge about using tags for seo. thanks for doing a good job.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>good post, i was really searching for post regarding Meta tag, to gain more knowledge about using tags for seo. thanks for doing a good job.</p>
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		<title>By: Greg Website Design South Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-902085</link>
		<dc:creator>Greg Website Design South Africa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have seen a meta-tag name=”PageRank” content=”4″ sometimes

Please post the website, hahahaaahaha</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have seen a meta-tag name=”PageRank” content=”4″ sometimes</p>
<p>Please post the website, hahahaaahaha</p>
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		<title>By: Goran Giertz - Website Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-902083</link>
		<dc:creator>Goran Giertz - Website Marketing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our local directories in South Africa rely on the keywords tag. Thus leaving them out guarantees lower positioning. 

&quot;I have seen a meta-tag name=”PageRank” content=”4″ sometimes, that is funny :)&quot;

Now that is funny, but why a 4 and not a 8 or even 10.

Have an exSeollent 2008</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our local directories in South Africa rely on the keywords tag. Thus leaving them out guarantees lower positioning. </p>
<p>&#8220;I have seen a meta-tag name=”PageRank” content=”4″ sometimes, that is funny :)&#8221;</p>
<p>Now that is funny, but why a 4 and not a 8 or even 10.</p>
<p>Have an exSeollent 2008</p>
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		<title>By: SEO Web Design</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-881422</link>
		<dc:creator>SEO Web Design</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What our author here is trying to bring across is meta tags that has of no value. For example,  if you are asking the robots NOT to index your site,  you then place the . But if you aren&#039;t, then what is the point of placing 

I have done a simple experiment in the past by reducing my page size to less than 15k which was ranked #4. And in just 4-5 days, it over-ranked the #3 site which was weighted 46k and took its position at #3.

By reducing useless tags, you are reducing the loading time and also allows the spiders to crawl your site easily. It helps in SEO.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What our author here is trying to bring across is meta tags that has of no value. For example,  if you are asking the robots NOT to index your site,  you then place the . But if you aren&#8217;t, then what is the point of placing </p>
<p>I have done a simple experiment in the past by reducing my page size to less than 15k which was ranked #4. And in just 4-5 days, it over-ranked the #3 site which was weighted 46k and took its position at #3.</p>
<p>By reducing useless tags, you are reducing the loading time and also allows the spiders to crawl your site easily. It helps in SEO.</p>
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		<title>By: Elegance in Design</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-805619</link>
		<dc:creator>Elegance in Design</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I have seen a meta-tag name=”PageRank” content=”4″ sometimes, that is funny :) &quot;

&quot;Now that is what I call wishful thinking!&quot;

Some people really believe in will it into reality.  I guess this is just another example. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I have seen a meta-tag name=”PageRank” content=”4″ sometimes, that is funny :) &#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Now that is what I call wishful thinking!&#8221;</p>
<p>Some people really believe in will it into reality.  I guess this is just another example. ;)</p>
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		<title>By: Local SEO Specialist - Terry Reeves</title>
		<link>http://www.searchenginejournal.com/worthless-meta-tags-used-by-seo-companies/6099/comment-page-1/#comment-803377</link>
		<dc:creator>Local SEO Specialist - Terry Reeves</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot; I have seen a meta-tag name=”PageRank” content=”4″ sometimes, that is funny :) &quot;

Now that is what I call wishful thinking!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8221; I have seen a meta-tag name=”PageRank” content=”4″ sometimes, that is funny :) &#8221;</p>
<p>Now that is what I call wishful thinking!</p>
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