What if meta description tag comes before meta title tag? Do the search engines disregard or penalize if the order is not title then description in the HTML?
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Do the search engines disregard or penalize if the order is not title then description in the HTML?
A client's webmaster is a newbie to SEO and did just this. Suggestions?
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Hi Mark,
That's an interesting statement about the keywords tag being more important than the robot tags. Google has said they totally ignore meta keywords. Can you provide a little more information about the source of this information?
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Alan-
They dont penalize but you aren't generating as much value as you should be......
The most important tags are the title, description, keywords and robot tags. Make sure they are in that order. The spiders read left to right...First words are the most important and the last words are the least important.
Most SEO people will tell you that the title is one of the most important factors for a successful search engine optimization of your website. Make sure it is first.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Mark
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I'm not sure if order is all too important. It's probably one to err on the side of caution as it's a fairly easy fix. You won't be penalised for this though.
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Hi
It doesn't make any sense that description comes before title. Search engine sets some rules for this so because of making our site search engine friendly and user friendly it is not good.
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