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Meta Tags in the <body>

whats up with that..

         

Oranjy

6:37 pm on Jun 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Can meta tags be added to the <body> section of page?
I was asking myslef this question after someone was having difficulties with them, and I thought that obviously if they were added to the body instead of the <head> then they would not work. So did a simple test and added a meta redirect to the body of a page and it worked. So I'm asking would adding description and keyword meta tags to the body of a page be picked up by search engines, instead of adding them to the head.
Don't ask why I want to know :).

e.g:

<html>
<head><title>nothing much</title></head>
<body>
<meta name="description" content="a meta tag in a the body section">
<meta name="keywords" content="are you mad? ">
</body>
</html>

Is this crazy?

bill

2:53 am on Jun 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Your HTML certainly won't validate. According to the standard, meta tags can only exist in the
<head>
.