Hello all
What do you think, is Google using Dublin Core tags when indexing site ? Are these tags (DC.description etc) important for Google ?
Thanks.
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A:
I'm assuming you're talking about this: http://dublincore.org/
It's certain that Google are NOT using that in their indexing. I've never heard of them before, never heard Google mention them, and there is no mention of Google or search engines on that site.
That's not to say Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc will never implement them. Google is using more metadata and rich snippets these days. Although from a quick look, they appear unnecessarily complex so it probably won't happen.
DisgruntledGoat
2010-04-14 11:21:48
Why the downvote?
DisgruntledGoat
2010-04-14 11:26:18
You're right, in general Google doesn't use them. We've found that most of the time they do not provide relevant and new information about a page (and oftentimes they're just copied from other, unrelated pages). Since there are other good ways to make sure that Googlebot finds information on a page, I'd wouldn't worry about these particular meta tags (unless you plan on using them for something else).
John Mueller
2010-04-15 10:40:33