How high in the code should the meta keywords appear

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How high in the code should the meta keywords appear

Steveboy

12:04 am on Mar 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

How high in the code should the meta keywords appear along with the meta description?

I have read the odd bits saying it should be as high as possible for spiders, is this true?

The reason I ask is that I have just taken a look at my wordpress code and it appeared about half way down after all the javascript and other bits.

will this effect my site?

jdMorgan

12:18 am on Mar 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

> will this affect my site?

Not likely, as most of the major search engines basically ignore the meta-keywords due to past abuse.

Jim

Steveboy

12:25 am on Mar 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

description is also way down. any need to worry?

jdMorgan

3:00 am on Mar 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

If you want a suggested "framework," here's an example of what I use:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content="Short list of main keywords on this page">
<meta name="description" content="A compelling description of this page, and a call to action.">
<title>Descriptive title of this page, with main keyword (or two)</title>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,noarchive,nosnippet,noodp,noydir -- as applicable">
<external CSS and JS includes, favicon location, MSIE imagetoolbar control, etc.>
<in-line CSS and JS code (if any)>
</head>

Note that it's important to get the doctype, language, and character set defined before including anything that the browser might have to render -- either directly or as a result of a search results listing.

Jim