- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:27:59 -0500
- To: Jordan Clark <clarky_y2k@hotmail.com>
- Cc: <site-comments@w3.org>, Jordan Clark <mail@jdclark.org>
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 -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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