SEO Help - wordpress Mega genarator

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Hi just wondering if anyone who is knowledgeable in SEO can explain wordress mega generator to me i have began looking at competitors source codes to check their meta tags and keywords and i found this "<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.6.2" "

I guess it is lifting them from blogs, does this have a advantage over normal meta tags? is it hard to do

Any help would be appreciated

Stu

[mattsaw]

meta name=generator simply defines the script that generated the document. This one just means the page was generated by Wordpress 2.6.2

[fisicx]

All it means is they are using workpress. Every wordpress blog has this meta in the same way that a joomla site has:

<meta name="Generator" content="Joomla!" />

It's nothing you need to worry about, it has no effect on ranking or anything else.

[Toni Anicic]

it has no effect on ranking or anything else.

It's not a ranking factor, but I'm really interested if we were to put this tag into a non-blog platform, would it show up in the blog search :)

[fisicx]

I doubt it. It the pings that tell google about the new posts. The meta is information only I doubt if google even reads the line. This blog post lists the ones google is interested in: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/answering-more-popular-picks-meta-tags.html

[JEREMY HAWKE]

Hi just wondering if anyone who is knowledgeable in SEO can explain wordress mega generator to me i have began looking at competitors source codes to check their meta tags and keywords and i found this "<metaname="generator" content="WordPress 2.6.2" "

I guess it is lifting them from blogs, does this have a advantage over normal meta tags? is it hard to do

Any help would be appreciated

Stu

Who is knowledgeable in SEO ? !!!

Good question?

They cant even answer that themselves !!!

SEO experts risk ending up in the same club as the bankers .Paid a lot of money without producing results .
I know we have a few here but if somebody does a job in most trades its either done or its not done ,or its done badly.These boys can say what they want !!! and when you say I cant find it on google ,they just say "ah but nobody uses that search term" :eek:

[mattsaw]

Who is knowledgeable in SEO ? !!!

Good question?

They cant even answer that themselves !!!

SEO experts risk ending up in the same club as the bankers .Paid a lot of money without producing results .
I know we have a few here but if somebody does a job in most trades its either done or its not done ,or its done badly.These boys can say what they want !!! and when you say I cant find it on google ,they just say "ah but nobody uses that search term" :eek:

Have I missed something here? The OP asked what a specific meta tag did, two people answer correctly and then you start ranting.....?