Can someone let me know if this string is correct?

[Blue07]

I am trying to optimize my site and when I mark my html with this.
<metaname="keywords" content="cold,warm,hot and so on">

When I save it seems that the page rewrites itself to this format.

<meta content="cold,warm,hot,and so on" name="Description">

I do not understand why it is doing this. I crawled my site and iI get a message saying that I have no description or keywords.

I am at my witts end. Please help.

Thanks,

Blue07 :rolleyes:

[JEC]

Blue07,

Your first example has the META tag declared incorrectly. Instead of "<metaname" it should be "<meta name" (notice the space). That's probably why you were told it had no keywords or description. It wasn't seeing it correctly. If you want a description for the site, you'll need to add another META tag.

JEC

[beu]

I am trying to optimize my site and when I mark my html with this.
<metaname="keywords" content="cold,warm,hot and so on">

When I save it seems that the page rewrites itself to this format.

<meta content="cold,warm,hot,and so on" name="Description">

I do not understand why it is doing this. I crawled my site and iI get a message saying that I have no description or keywords.

I am at my witts end. Please help.

Thanks,

Blue07 :rolleyes:

Maybe an issue with your CMS you could try using a text editor!

[Blue07]

Blue07,

Your first example has the META tag declared incorrectly. Instead of "<metaname" it should be "<meta name" (notice the space). That's probably why you were told it had no keywords or description. It wasn't seeing it correctly. If you want a description for the site, you'll need to add another META tag.

JEC
JEC,

Thanks for your reply. I tried it with the space 2 times to make sure I did not type it incorrectly. It still gives me the same problem. It seems to change whatever I put into the format it wants. check out my site blueflameps.com and look at the source. If you see something I am doing wrong please let me know.

Thanks.

Blue07

[BuckfastMonk]

What editor are you using just out of curiosity?


Paste the code below into your page. I copied your exact text so it will work as you want it. If it changes, just edit your html file in notepad.


<META name="description" content="Blue Flame is a Website Design and Strategy Consulting Group that can help you with fast logo design and Search Engine Optimization. We also help with Business Sales and Marketing.">

<META name="keywords" content="Website Marketing,Web Strategies,Search Engine Optimization,Logo Design,Sales consulting,sales planning,sales management,best practice,Low Cost,Wylie,Texas,Plano,Allen,Texas,United States,Rank your site">

[atlanta404]

Hi.

What kind of value does Google see in adding keywords into the <meta name = "Keywords" content = ...> string?

Thanks!

[BuckfastMonk]

. . . Not a lot

[Blue07]

Thanks alot for the help. does it matter how the meta information is marked? Does it hold any addtional weight if it is
<Meta name="keywords" content ="blah blah blah">
String Versus
<Meta Content="blah blah blah" name ="keywords">

If it does not matter then I will just leave it alone.

Regards,

Blue07 :cool:

What editor are you using just out of curiosity?


Paste the code below into your page. I copied your exact text so it will work as you want it. If it changes, just edit your html file in notepad.


<META name="description" content="Blue Flame is a Website Design and Strategy Consulting Group that can help you with fast logo design and Search Engine Optimization. We also help with Business Sales and Marketing.">

<META name="keywords" content="Website Marketing,Web Strategies,Search Engine Optimization,Logo Design,Sales consulting,sales planning,sales management,best practice,Low Cost,Wylie,Texas,Plano,Allen,Texas,United States,Rank your site">

[beu]

Does it hold any addtional weight if it is
<Meta name="keywords" content ="blah blah blah">
String Versus
<Meta Content="blah blah blah" name ="keywords">

Using "keywords" first example, is W3C valid.

"Keywords" last, second example is not valid and / or could be seen as an attempt to trick the search engines. That said, sometimes it seems to work better but either way I wouldn't take the chance.