At 9:52 AM -0500 11/10/2000, Sandy Hostetter wrote:
>I have been actively promoting the use of Dublin Core on the external web
>pages for my corporation. Recently the e-Business group in the corporation
>has been starting to pay some serious attention to my offers to help them
>do this. However, I am currently in a philosophical disagreement with some
>members of the e-Business group about use of the KEYWORDS tag as opposed to
>using the dc.subject tag. Can any of you provide me with good arguments
>why the KEYWORDS tag is basically unnecessary and how the dc.subject tag
>accomplishes the same function?
No, I think the Keywords field is the standard, and any tagging you
do should in fact use that field. Some big public search engines
will make good use of the data and search engine optimizers work them
carefully.
>Or, please explain why my assumption that
>including both a Keywords tag and dc.subject tag with the same term content
>would possibly be considered spamming the search engines that pay attention
>to duplication, etc., is wrong.
None of the big public search engines that I know will look at
dc.subject at all (I actually have a test case up), so they don't
consider duplicate text in there to be spamming. Those site search
engines which do recognize DC tags are not concerned about spamming
because they assume you have control over the data.
Avi
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