What is the most important tag for SEO?

**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

Originally Posted by SuperTodd

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:

Code:

<!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No. That's outdated.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

Originally Posted by djr33

No. That's outdated.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.

Code:

	<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.

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