Yeah, I know that pitch, but I would like some opinion on whether it matters AT ALL if the code is located under the title or just anywhere before the body. I don’t really think it does and apparently the creators of WordPress plugins agree.
My personal approach, since Google keeps f—ing with things, is just to write good stuff and let people find me. If there’s anything obviously wrong in terms of code on my site, I’d like to know and be able to fix it. I do ad layouts the way I want, I say what I want, and screw people who don’t like that.
It doesn’t matter in the slightest as far as I am aware.
God bless you! That’s what I thought, if a computer is looking for meta something it doesn’t care if it’s in the first line or the billionth line, time is nothing to a computer.
I already told the guy, hey, thanks for the input, but I ain’t changing nothing. I deleted his response to just avoid unnecessary arguments.
Should I even be concerned with meta tag location in the page source?
Apologies, I was keying in on this particular part of the question, so didn’t fully answer you with my post!
No problem, not upset and I do understand where you are coming from on this point. I agree. This fellow just confronted me with an ultimatum, fix my page code or he won’t trade links with me because I’m doomed, DOOMED I TELLS YE! because my meta-tags aren’t in the right location in the HTML code. I just really don’t think that makes any sense, was wondering if somebody could clearly explain why I’m wrong to think that.
I’ve never really thought about it. Meta tags are simply there to provide information about your website. Unlike link and script tags, which occasionally DO have to be in order, meta tag order shouldn’t matter at all as long as the right ones are filled with the proper content.
I wondered at first whether the plugin I used conflicted with my theme in some way, but when I tried a different SEO plugin it put the code in the same place. I thought it was unlikely that two highly rated professionals would make exactly the same mistake. The plug-ins are handy, I’ve gone back to All-in-one SEO. I suppose I could tinker with page code just to get the link exchange from this fellow but it’s not going to benefit me, will just make problems with every WordPress update. So I’m good with things the way they are. Screw the search engines! just let them try to find me, the good stuff is always buried deep.
