Re: W3C Site Suggestion [Was: RE: Broken Link to W3C Logo Usage page‏]

On 19 Oct 2009, at 7:45 PM, Jordan Clark wrote:

>
> Dear Ian,
>
> One small suggestion - a useful addition to the homepage XHTML's  
> HEAD element would be a META description tag with a brief abstract  
> of the World Wide Web Consortium'smission/purpose etc...
>
> I realise that most META tags (such as META keywords) are pretty  
> much redundant these days due to spamming and human inaccuracies,  
> but all the major search engines such asAsk, Google, Yahoo! and Bing  
> (formerly Windows Live Search) use the META description contents as  
> the site's descriptive text in the search engine results pages  
> (SERPS). (I think the optimal amount of characters per description  
> is 150.)
>
> Just a thought to enhance your SEO and the quality of the site's  
> index listings...

Done. Thank you for the reminder; we had that in the previous home  
page as well.

I've added a slightly shorter version than the previous text.

  _ Ian

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Received on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 02:28:04 UTC