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Hello,

I’ve been working on implimenting meta tag support for weblog entries and noticed that the LG Meta extension uses the Dublin Core meta element set.

<link rel='schema.DC' href='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/' />
<link rel='schema.DCTERMS' href='http://purl.org/dc/terms/' />
<meta name='DC.title' content='eCalc' />
<meta name='DC.creator' content='' />
<meta name='DC.subject' content='' />
<meta name='DC.description' content='' />

Is there any advantage in including this purl url?  Will this require an extra http request for every page that loads?

Why not just specify the name yourself as opposed to going through a url redirect?

How does this affect SEO?

thanks

I’m using LGs extension and I just wiped that stuff out completely. The only tags I’m going with are description, keywords and author. The last I heard was that Google didn’t support DC, but that was a while ago (talking 2-3 years). And I hadn’t seen/heard DC mentioned anywhere until I installed LGs extension a month or so back.

None of that probably helped but I wouldn’t imagine there’s much, if any, advantage with SEO.

I know that Dublin Core is recommended for museums, libraries and such institutions. It’s an effort to create standarized metadata globally. Or, at least it was a couple of years ago. Looking at http://dublincore.org/, they still seem to be very active. Don’t know if it’s important to Google, though.

Thanks…

In “googling” Google, I came across this page that notes which meta tags Google supports.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=79812&topic=8522