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From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Aug 7, 2007 7:40AM

Hi,

At 11:42 7/08/2007, you wrote:
>(...)
>Which leads me to my next question; does anybody on here use Dublin
>Core metadata? I did last time I had to add metadata, but looking
>around at other reputable sites, it doesn't seem like anyone else
>does. Is Dublin Core not worth adding? Does Dublin core improve SEO,
>or do you need to add seperate metadata for this?

In my previous message, I forgot to mention that "meta tags", which
is where you put Dublin Core metadata, have been declared dead a few
times (i.e. for the purpose of search engine marketing), e.g.:
* "Death Of A Meta Tag", by Danny Sullivan, 1 October 2002:
<http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2165061>;;
* "Meta-Tags Are Dead - The End of An Era of Deception", by Tony D.
Baker, 11 September 2006:
<http://www.xeal.com/blog/index.php/2006/09/11/meta_tags_are_dead>;.

(I also didn't want to imply that the sites I mentioned were the only
ones I knew that use Dublin Core; there are others, including e.g.
Alan Wood's Unicode Resources:
<http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html>;, which even has a Dublin
Core logo. You can find more examples by searching for "Dublin Core
used here".)

Best regards,

Christophe


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