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Weird Meta Tag Placement

Meta Above the HTML tag

         

phrequency

9:45 pm on Nov 2, 2001 (gmt 0)



I stumbled upon something I had never seen before.
Has anyone seen meta-tags (keywords and description) ABOVE the "<html>" tag?

These guys are:
[delinked.....no urls please]

Wondering if this is something that helps or hinders.

Thanks ppl.

(edited by: agerhart at 8:51 pm (gmt) on Nov. 3, 2001)

agerhart

10:20 pm on Nov 2, 2001 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Feel free to correct me if I am off here, but these are my thoughts.

Putting these tags outside of the HTML tags would only hurt you as they wouldn't be inside the HTML of the page itself.....

but, then I copied the code and pasted it into a blank document in Dreamweaver.......

and for some reason the tags that were above the <HTML> tags now appeared below the <HTML> tags.

One of two things is happening that I can think of:

- Dreamweaver caught the misplacing of the tags and put them in the right place

- The optimizer or web designer that put them above the <HTML> tags knows something that I don't!

<added>

And then after thinking about this, I realized that this probably wouldn't even matter.....how much weight do META tags have these days? Even if so, why would it matter that there was <HTML> and <HEAD> before them?

I don't think that there is much to it........IMO

</added>

bufferzone

10:00 pm on Nov 3, 2001 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I agree with agerhard.

Mayby if the meta tags above the <HTML> are different from the metatag in the <HEAD> section, the web designer is trying to corner some keywords that are not in the page body section. I don't think it matters much since meta tags are not that improtant.