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SuperTodd
11-18-2006, 04:14 PM
You might say that html, body, or head are most important as maybe search engines are not so forgiving of seriously faulty markup.

This poll is more for keywords - which tag is most important for keyword optimization?
Twey
11-18-2006, 04:59 PM
If your content doesn't already contain all the necessary keywords, there's something wrong with your design.
blm126
11-18-2006, 05:18 PM
<body>
mwinter
11-19-2006, 03:02 PM
You might say that html, body, or head are most important as maybe search engines are not so forgiving of seriously faulty markup.

The start- and end-tags for each of those elements are optional, though the elements themselves are always implied. A minimal, valid HTML document is:



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<title//<p>

Mike
techno_race
03-03-2007, 03:09 PM
<meta>
chechu
03-03-2007, 04:48 PM
If your content doesn't already contain all the necessary keywords, there's something wrong with your design.

Agree. The content should be what you worry about, and not keywords.
djr33
03-05-2007, 07:12 PM
<meta>No. That's outdated. Smarter search engines (aka google, etc.) search the actual content of your page. This stops people from needing to embed hints to the SE and also stops people from tricking the SE.



Saying <body> is the most logical, though <title> etc are also included. Very minimal scripting is supported, so including large amounts of content via javascript will give you the least effective results with SEs.
GhettoT
03-05-2007, 07:16 PM
No. That's outdated. Smarter search engines (aka google, etc.) search the actual content of your page. This stops people from needing to embed hints to the SE and also stops people from tricking the SE.



Saying <body> is the most logical, though <title> etc are also included. Very minimal scripting is supported, so including large amounts of content via javascript will give you the least effective results with SEs.

<meta> is outdated for actual keyword searching with search engines. But the


<meta name="description" content="DESCRIPTION HERE">
Is still used by most search engines to draw the description displayed with the search results.
Twey
03-05-2007, 07:19 PM
As GhettoT says, while the <meta> tags are no longer relied upon by search engines, they have other (potential and actual) uses; the "keywords" field might be used to allow a user to search his/her bookmarks at a glance, for instance.
djr33
03-05-2007, 07:27 PM
But the question is on search engine order.

I find the <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag to be great, but it's not related. ;)