Keywords - Titles on Meta Tags Who is First?

L

Liz Bradley

Hello,
In trying to learn about Meta Tags what comes first?

# 1 - Title
Keywords
Description
OR
# 2 - Description
Keywords
Title
I have seen this set up both ways and which way is correct?
Thanks, Liz
 
P

P@tty Ayers

Liz Bradley said:
Hello,
In trying to learn about Meta Tags what comes first?

# 1 - Title
Keywords
Description
OR
# 2 - Description
Keywords
Title
I have seen this set up both ways and which way is correct?
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There's no correct or incorrect order for them. <title> is important, and
the meta description will be used by some search engines, but meta keywords
are pretty much useless. The search engines figured out years ago how
much-abused the meta keyword tag is, and they pay very little attention to
it, if any.
 
T

Tom Willett

Title
Description
Keywords.

However, according to the criteria of the search engines, keywords are
really no longer used/crawled by the robots.

They look for keywords within your pages. That's where you need to
concentrate.
 
L

Liz Bradley

Thanks everyone! As always, everyone is GREAT here especially to the new ones!
 
M

Murray

It means that titles are the most important. 8)

For SE ranking purposes (and assuming that 'keywords' refers to the meta
tag, the other two have no significance at all.
 
P

P@tty Ayers

Murray said:
It means that titles are the most important. 8)
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Right, but it doesn't matter where in the <head> the title is.

The original poster asked which order is *correct*, and so I'm curious about
Tom's answer providing a "correct order" for meta tags.
 
M

Murray

Right, but it doesn't matter where in the <head> the title is.

Correct - I don't think that list implied anything about the ordering of
those elements in the code.
The original poster asked which order is *correct*, and so I'm curious
about Tom's answer providing a "correct order" for meta tags.
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I believe both Tom and I misread the OP's post and responded from a Search
engine perspective, not from a simple code location perspective.
 
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Tom Willett

I was responsing from a Search Engine perspective, yes.
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