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**johanesw** · 08-31-2004, 08:43 AM

meta tag within <body> tag....

Hello guys....In my website, there are <html><head><meta></meta></head><body></body></html> tag sets inside the page's <body> tag.....so a complete HTML page within an html page.....

I wonder whether Google will treat the <meta> tags in this set equally to <meta> tags in the well...how do you say it...parent page...

thanks for any help...

**Lola** · 09-04-2004, 03:46 PM

Do you mean in iframes? Because iframes are treated as a regular page by google.

**johanesw** · 09-09-2004, 05:04 AM

No, not Iframe, my page goes like this:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>blahblah</title>
</head>
<body>
      <p>Bahbahbah and other contents, then in here:</p>
      <html>
       <head>
       <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
       <meta http-equiv="description" content="blahblahblah">
        <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="blah blah">
       </head>
        <body>
          <p>bahbah</p>
        </body>
       </html>
        <p> bah bah bah</p>
</body>
</html>

As you can see, my meta tags are in a new html set inside a body tag....Will these meta tags be treated like normal meta tags? Thanks....

Btw, don't ask me why i have to do this setup....It's a long story....

**Lola** · 09-09-2004, 11:33 AM

I have no idea, but here is my opinion:

1. Meta tags should be on the top of the page after the opening of html, which means it would be inside the head on the start of the page, where google can easily find it right when searching the source.
2. Html tag can only be opened and closed once per page.
3. The body tag can only be opened and closed once per page, because, the first body setting will override the other body. FOr example, setting body bgcolor=000000 will ovverride the other body's bg, meaning there can only be one body.

There is prolly more, not too sure.

I'm not too sure

**xela220** · 09-12-2004, 12:15 AM

Wow. The question is can the browsers deal with it?

**johanesw** · 09-12-2004, 03:15 AM

well...the browsers rendered my pages correctly and perfectly....

**clientcenters** · 09-12-2004, 04:21 AM

I don't know if the browser will ignore the meta tags outside the <head> area, but I do know the browser will ignore double tags ( <header> <body>, etc ) and use the first one it comes to. But I also did a test and put the title where you put the meta tags and it works.

But i'm curious as to why you do it this way. Please share

**RoN** · 09-13-2004, 09:37 PM

You're playing with fire, IMHO

Meta cramming it's called, can cost you dearly.