metacrap

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metacrap is a general purpose derogatory term referring to the poor quality of meta information like those in meta tags category, description, OGP, Twitter Cards, and other DRY violations outside the primary content of a page, introduced in a 2001 essay by Cory Doctorow.

How not to

Avoid metacrap by instead making sure all meaningful content is in the content of a page, and marking it up with microformats so machines looking for that content (the usual use-case for most metacrap) can find it.

Examples

HTML content

Meta tags

Wikipedia

See Also