ChatterBank4 mins ago
Meta tags
I'm editing the HTML code of my website and I'm a bit confused. It looks like this:
Line 5 <meta name = "keywords" content = " blah..
Line 6 <meta name = "description" content = " blah
Line 7 <meta
Line 8 content = " blah...
Line 9 name = subject>
Line 10 <meta
Line 11 content = "Blah..
The contents of the paragraphs for lines 5,8 & 11 are the same, consisting of 2,338 characters and 318 words (too much I reckon). Whilst I understand keywords and description I do not understand the purpose of lines 8 & 11. Do they need to exist at all and, if so, do they require different text?
Please help, I'm pulling my hair out.
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http://www.html-reference.com/META_name_classification.h tm
Change it to what you want.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
this tells the browser what character set is used (here, utf-8. you should be using this char set).
the rest as the others say are for the benefit of search engines. google and the like do pay attention, but its definitely not all they pay attention to.