Comments on: Do You Know How Many Tags The Average Web Page Uses? http://blog.v7n.com/2006/07/26/do-you-know-how-many-tags-the-average-web-page-uses/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:40:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Halfdeck http://blog.v7n.com/2006/07/26/do-you-know-how-many-tags-the-average-web-page-uses/comment-page-1/#comment-1012 Halfdeck Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:42:28 +0000 http://blog.v7n.com/2006/07/26/do-you-know-how-many-tags-the-average-web-page-uses/#comment-1012 The first thing to notice is the huge number of markup errors involving the meta element. Markup such as: ...which results in a meta element with eight attributes, and which doesn't help anyone (least of all the search engines it's aimed at, since the second attribute should have been content, not value, and therefore the entire element is likely to be ignored). http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/metadata.html Oh ok...so invalid code does sometimes throw Google off (not to rehash the old Amazon/Google doesn't validate debate or anything). The first thing to notice is the huge number of markup errors involving the meta element. Markup such as:

…which results in a meta element with eight attributes, and which doesn’t help anyone (least of all the search engines it’s aimed at, since the second attribute should have been content, not value, and therefore the entire element is likely to be ignored).

http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/metadata.html

Oh ok…so invalid code does sometimes throw Google off (not to rehash the old Amazon/Google doesn’t validate debate or anything).

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