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Does anyone have the definitive answer please, on which one of these is correct, as far as seo is concerned:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Description" NAME="Description" CONTENT="Describe your site here">
<meta name="description" content="Describe your site here">
Sev.
the first one may be invalid dependent on what flavor of html/doctype your using
Many thanks for that, good point about the doctype - I use:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
The 1st one above is what msn reccomend and the 2nd one is the one I use.
What do the others here use?
Sev.
<meta name="description" content="Describe your site here">If MSN recommend the other one, they are wrong: http-equiv is used to represent the equivalent of an HTTP header, which the description is not. If you remove the duplication of name and http-equiv both should validate, however - the validator does not check whether the contents of the meta tag are meaningful - but name is the correct one here.
didnt even notice the different syntax altogether - just saw CAPITALS and non-capitals and steamed straight in.
Apologies.. :(
