Order of Head Meta Tags
Annie form the world of Gmail asks:
I would like to enquire if while putting the meta tags into the head of my website, is there an order of things, like descriptions, keywords, abstracts etc. for SEO purposes.
Hello Annie,
Best practise is to place your two most important tags at the top, after your head tag:
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="">
Then
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="title" content="">
And if you want to block ODP and yahoo directory titles and descriptions:
<meta name="robots" content="NOODP">
<meta name="robots" content="NOYDIR">
Obviously, if you are working in XHTML, rather than HTML, you would need to use the XHTML closing tags.
These are the only head tags with any real value to optimisation and this is the order in which I suggest you place them.
I hope that helps.
