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meta tags inserted into html but not inside "head"
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:18 pm
by bloodl
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
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:27 am
by superdezign
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:40 am
by Kieran Huggins
You should definitely put them in the correct section. To do otherwise is just sloppy and begs for breakage.
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:27 pm
by bloodl
hmm thanks for that!
very interesting... I value your feedback guys - i didn't think it would validate
Cheers,
Doug
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:38 pm
by JAB Creations
Yahoo to a limited extent uses meta keywords, keep it at or under seven words however otherwise it's just spam. Google will use meta descriptions which are nifty. Use them correctly and check out pages that have been visited to see what results you get.