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Documents are stored in servers accessed via their URL, the last part of which is the domain name (.com, .net, .org, .info, ...)

Meta Tags are in the Head section of your web page.
e.g. <meta http-equiv="Classification" content='History' "> Some popular ones are:

  • PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) - child safe rating from safe surf or R.S.A.C.
  • robot - Instructs search engine robots (spiders) e.g. (INDEX, FOLLOW, NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW)
  • REVISIT inform the search bot/web crawler when it should revisit your web document to update its index.
  • COPYRIGHT
  • AUTHOR
  • LANGUAGE
  • DOCUMENT EXPIRES - used by caches to determine when to fetch a fresh copy
  • KEYWORDS
  • Description
  • CLASSIFICATION
Example: <META NAME="CLASSIFICATION" CONTENT="charity, philanthropy, nonprofit, not-for-profit, volunteer">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="charity, charities, philanthropist, philanthropists, philanthropy, philanthropic, nonprofit, not-for-profit, volunteer, volunteers, volunteering">

The Aesop Meta Tag

  1. Sales
  2. Interactive (Email services, Postcard services, Online games, Chat rooms, Bulletin boards, Forums)
  3. Multimedia (audio, video, animation, graphics)
  4. Links to Information
  5. Personal
  6. Information
Article at developers.evrsoft.com

See Meta tag Classification for Web pages at:
Popular Meta Tags
mathcs.richmond.edu/~barnett/Web_info/Web_resource_classification.html

last updated 20 Dec 2004