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(Message started by: Nick_H on Mar 6^th, 2005, 8:44pm)

Title: Holiday and Vacation Planning
Post by Nick_H on Mar 6^th, 2005, 8:44pm

Question:

Why does the Forum section title include "Holiday and Vacation Planning"?

Is this some sort of sponsorship deal? :) :) :)

Title: Re: Holiday and Vacation Planning
Post by scorpio_man on Mar 6^th, 2005, 9:20pm

hi there

i think it's a meta tag (think that's what it's called). web sites use them to increase 'hits' from search engines.

hth

Title: Re: Holiday and Vacation Planning
Post by Vulcan on Mar 6^th, 2005, 9:54pm

Oddly enough the title in the IE bar at the top comes from what the page is named on the server.

I pulled a bit of the source code out below..
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Holiday and Vacation Planning - Ford Scorpio Forums hosted by the leading ISP for owners and enthusiasts</TITLE>
<META
content="Holiday Flights - New and secondhand, problem advice and solutions from fellow Ford owners - best accessed using Broadband DSL"
name=Descripton>
<META
content="Cheap flights, holidays, planning, exchange rates, Ford, Scorpio, Granada, car,auto,vehicle,repair,mobile phone, ringtones, ring tones, mmf,picture"
name=keywords>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<STYLE type=text/css>A:link {
FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #005177; TEXT-DECORATION: none

As you can see the page title is definitely Holiday and Vacation planning etc.

The Meta tags are what spiders and search engines use to determine the "content" of a site and you can see those above and they start with cheap flights, holidays..etc and even have ring tones in there
This looks very odd to me, I can't figure out how it could be done by mistake.

Title: Re: Holiday and Vacation Planning
Post by LiverpaulH on Mar 7^th, 2005, 10:30am

I wondered about that, just thought my computer was up the swanny!

Paul

Title: Re: Holiday and Vacation Planning
Post by Nick_H on Mar 7^th, 2005, 2:23pm

Hi,

Sorry to be pedantic, but technically it's not a META tag.

It's the <TITLE> tag, which is not metadata.

My point was - what has holiday planning got to do with Scorpios?

Cheers,
N.

Title: Re: Holiday and Vacation Planning
Post by Vulcan on Mar 7^th, 2005, 5:43pm

on 03/07/05 at 14:23:55, Nick_H wrote:

Sorry to be pedantic, but technically it's not a META tag.

It's the <TITLE> tag, which is not metadata.

I had thought that was what I said... ;D ;D but without being pedantic.. ;)

on 03/07/05 at 14:23:55, Nick_H wrote:

My point was - what has holiday planning got to do with Scorpios?

Yep, mine too... :D

Title: Re: Holiday and Vacation Planning
Post by Nick_H on Mar 7^th, 2005, 5:51pm

I'm sorry, Vulcan - I'm in Anti-pedantic Therapy, but it's not working as fast as I'd like...

Maybe we could start a thread about Holiday and Vacation Planning... I fancy a Nile Cruise...

Title: Re: Holiday and Vacation Planning
Post by Richard on Mar 7^th, 2005, 9:08pm

Nick......Don't tell the catain,lol.