Google have produced some very interesting statistics after looking at a billion webpages to find the most common ways a webpage is coded. Google also voices it’s opinion on what webmasters should be doing and what they are doing wrong for example:
“…revisit-after, supposedly used to tell search engines how often to recrawl the page. To our knowledge only one search engine has ever supported it, and that search engine was never widely used — at this point, it is nothing more than a good luck charm. A remarkably widely used one. More pages use the completely worthless <meta name=”revisit-after”> than use the <em> element!”
Here is the full Google Web Authoring Statistics from the Google Code website.
Kevin Gibbons is Founder/Director of Strategy at SEOptimise. Kevin is well known within the search industry as a blogger for sites such as Search Engine Land, Econsultancy and Search Engine Watch. Kevin is also a frequent SEO speaker at a number of conferences including Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), a4uexpo, SAScon and BrightonSEO.
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