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A friend of mine has told me that having a DOCTYPE and charset statements are important for Google, and that the ordering of your meta tags is also keen.
I have avoided DOCTYPE, as very few sites seem to conform to the DOCTYPE statement they show (it is very hard) and maybe Google penalize for false statements.
But I am very keen to know if arranging your meta tags in a certain order holds any advantage.
Any thoughts / input?
:-)
> ... having a DOCTYPE and charset statements are important for Google
For some recent discussions about this topic see:
[webmasterworld.com ]
[webmasterworld.com ]
> ... ordering of your meta tags is also keen
Why should the order be important for Google? And if so, what do you think should come first?
The only exception I can think of is that charset should come first if the other meta tags contain non-ASCII characters. Or maybe I should write characters not in ISO-8859-1 (Latin1). So if the meta description is written in lets say Greek, it could help to put the "Content-Type" meta first. If not for Google, do it for the browsers/users.
See also message 4 in this [webmasterworld.com] thread.
