As a general rule meta tags are a good thing to have in your page.
They are used for changing or specifying character sets, refreshing
browsers,redirections etc to other pages, and improve search engine ratings
through well defined page descriptions. The meta description tag is very
important for good page structure as it allows you to influence the
description of your page in the crawlers that support that tag when they are
crawling your site - that said it has been abused by spammers using keywords
to influence their ratings with searhc engines and more reliance now is on
good page structure and well written content. You should though still
persist in describing and dating your pages as its good practice.
Do a search on search engine optimization for some advice on what helps.
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Regards
John Timney
Microsoft MVP
"Mantorok" <sp******@spam.com> wrote in message
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Is it advisable to use metatags in html pages?
I'm going to be creating som ehtml pages on the fly from my website and
then ultimately publish them, however I want these pages to be picked up
by search engines - can meta tags be used in this way, and if so, what are
the recommended usages?
Thanks
Kev