Hi,
I noticed that if you insert meta tags into html somewhere in the body tags, the browser still recognizes them. I know its bad practice, but do search engines frown on putting meta tags in the body INSTEAD of the head?
Cheers,
Doug
meta tags inserted into html but not inside "head"
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Frown upon? No. Meta tags are meaningless, really, and some search engines hardly use them at all. Take Google, for instance. They use meta tags for a lot of search results, but meta tags don't really affect your standing in the results, just how the result is displayed.
The only bad thing about putting them in the body instead of the head is that, firstly, it belongs in the head according to HTML standards, and secondly, search engines do not need to load your entire page to get a gist of what it's about. We don't have any guarantee that search engines will always read the entire page on our websites, or even be able to.
The only bad thing about putting them in the body instead of the head is that, firstly, it belongs in the head according to HTML standards, and secondly, search engines do not need to load your entire page to get a gist of what it's about. We don't have any guarantee that search engines will always read the entire page on our websites, or even be able to.
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