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seowheel
19-12-2002, 17:18/05:18PM
I recently saw this tag:meta http-equiv= and was curious what exactly it is?

Does this mean anything different for SEO?
Matt B
19-12-2002, 18:56/06:56PM
not much, just use regular meta tag info and you should be fine.
seowheel
20-12-2002, 10:50/10:50AM
I figured it was similar to the regular meta tags but I am still curious why it was being used. Does it have any advantages at all?
Alan Perkins
20-12-2002, 11:11/11:11AM
Use http-equiv to specify lines you want to be treated as part of the HTTP response header.

The well-known "Meta Refresh" tag uses http-equiv.
g1smd
20-12-2002, 15:23/03:23PM
I use these two http-equiv tags on most of my pages:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN-GB">

You may need other language codes in place of EN-GB.

The first part comes from ISO 639, the second part from ISO 3166.


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