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dschwab9:
What is the reason for the weird format of the Meta Tags:

<meta  content="word1, word2, etc." name="keywords" />

I assume something to do with XML, but according to some search engines that check the meta tags and software/websites designed to validate meta tags, it's invalid.
I've changed mine to:

<meta name="keywords" content="word1, word2, etc."> and that works.

Is there any reason I should have left them in the other format, since apparently it is not widely supported?

Spaceman-Spiff:
it's XHTML, and it "should" be supported by all search engines
a lot of webscripts are now using XHTML standards, going back to HTML 4.01 will be a one step backward...

if you wanna learn more about XHTML, read: http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp

dschwab9:
Well, I've noticed a lot of the search engines (not spiders like google), when you submit your URL, they will scan for meta tags and show you your key words, description, etc.

I have yet to see it work with YaBB SE.  They ALWAYS say " meta tags could not be found" or something similar.  Since changing it to the other format, it always works.

Is it possible that the search engine support XHTML, but the syntax is incorrect?  What is the correct syntax?  I'm using the meta tags that came with YaBB SE with my data inserted, but they very well could be wrong in the SE download.

What is the advantage of XHTML?  We would it be a step backwards to use the other meta tags?  Seems that something the search engines can read would be better than something they can't.

[Unknown]:
It is correct syntax.

What weird search engine(s) are/is this?  I've never seen one that doesn't detect them - nor really one that uses them.

What is the advantage of Serial ATA?  What is the advantage of V8?  What is the advantage of color monitors?  Pfft, why are we using computers and not pads of paper?

Go ahead and use a black and white monitor if you want, it's your forum.

-[Unknown]

Spaceman-Spiff:
if you find a search engine that doesn't support XHTML, you might want to contact them and tell them about it
even PHP, since version 4.0.5, is now using XHTML, like when using functions like nl2br or htmlspecialchars, PHP will use <br /> instead of <br>
of course your website will still work fine even if you remove the slash before the close tag sign, but it will make your website not XHTML compliant

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