In many web content publishing tools it is not possible to modify the contents of <html> and <head> element. Therefore it may not be possible to mention correct Document Type (DOCTYPE) and Content Type (@http-equiv) values. However it is still possible to add RDF normative metadata to your web content. Web content annotated with RDFa is scanned for RDF triples by major Search Engines such as Google and Yahoo!.
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Google has announced a new search strategy to explore the invisible web. Invisible web comprises web documents that have not been indexed yet. Google's new search strategy is to retrieve invisible information from the web sites that use HTML forms by providing input data to HTML input controls. As mentioned in the post that announces this search strategy they shall honor the privacy policy of a web site by processing robots.txt file and META tag 'ROBOTS' and avoid HTTP requests that require user information processing.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technique applied to increase the rank of a page in Search Engine Result Page (SERP). SERP is the list of URIs found for the user query and rendered in descending PageRank order on a single web page. Since most web users shall traverse the URIs on the first SERP or may be next few, most web content providers would want that their web page URI is included in the first few SERPs.
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