Curious meta-tag

[seo.academy]

Has anyone met this meta tag?

<meta name="ranking" content="Top10, Page=1" />

I imagine it has no effect but I'm curios where did it came from, i saw it on many sites

[DanHill]

haha we wish that were a real tag!

[RyanKent]

I actually thought I made it up! I never actually seen anyone use it.

I have seen people use meta tags which were not valid for Google (to say the least) or people who were convinced the meta keywords tag had value. I very sarcastically advised a similar meta tag to the one you are displaying.

You've seen it on many sites? I would think the same person worked on all those sites. It is hard to imagine multiple people using that tag.

[seo.academy]

www.comunicatedepresa.net is one of them

you can find others by a simple google search:)

[RyanKent]

There was an inquiry about that site just yesterday. The site has significant issues such as it is duplicated with a www and non-www version.

[seo.academy]

Yes, i know, i made the inquiry.

The curios fact is that a site with duplicate content issues and pr 3 outranks a pr 7 website for the main keyword targeted. (full domain match for both of them)

[irvingw]

It's not april 1st so what's going on.

<meta name="pagerank"  var="11" />