strange characters

anabella · #1 (**permalink**) 04-16-2004, 03:35 PM

Even I am pretty sure that my metatags are fine when I type my URL at google it shows like this

Windsor Hills Resort ☼ villa and townhome Windsor Hills Resort ... - [ Traduzca esta página ]
ï»¿, ...
www.fantasiahome.com/ - 16k - 15 Abr 2004

why are those strange characters???

Anabella

volkoman · #2 (**permalink**) 04-16-2004, 04:12 PM

Hello Anabella......

I believe the symbols are part of your text.

The "sunshine" symbol may default to the square you see. The others ???? who knows.

The entire Meta section should also be re-done. Its quite loooooooooooooooooooooooog. :)

But you have enough problems with the bad linking you are alerted to in your other post.

Clean up time.

anabella · #3 (**permalink**) 04-16-2004, 04:17 PM

yes the sunshine is part, but what are causeing the

ï»¿, ...

that cames instead of the descriptions?

the bad linkings is the LinksToYou thing or you think is another problem that I am not realizing?

Anabella

volkoman · #4 (**permalink**) 04-16-2004, 04:54 PM

Start by rearanging the metas...

title, description & keywords on top

add the "s to the ones that are missing. (might be one of the probs)

<META content=index,follow name=ROBOTS>

is missing the quotes, as some others

sudhani · #5 (**permalink**) 04-16-2004, 06:21 PM

1. There is no opening <HTML> Tag. This is one of the reasons.

2. Check the Doc type declaration:

Quote:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

You are using html files. the following could be a better declaration:

Quote:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

3. You are using two different types of charector sets on the page

First:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Second:
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Use only one of them, may be this is causing the cofusion.

4. I don't think you need any of the following meta tags:
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="robots" content="all">
<meta name="rating" content="General">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<META content="2 days" name=revisit-after>
<META content="Safe for Kids" name=RATING>
<META content=index,follow name=ROBOTS>
<META content="Kissimmee, Orlando, Florida, USA" name=Location>
<META content=rentals,villas,travel,lodging,accommodatio n name=Categories>

You can safely remove the above tags. This is the problem with using the WYSIWYG page generators.

5. Check your tags. There are a few errors.

Validate your file here: http://validator.w3.org/

anabella · #6 (**permalink**) 04-16-2004, 08:07 PM

which of the 2 charector sets on is best?

well actually this is the problem of not using any page generators at all, I do all my sites typing the old fashion way in the notepad code by code, so I trend to "steal" the metatags from pages that are similar to mines :(

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