Invisible to the naked eye
Every web page will include the tags shown below as a basic
minimum. These are invisible when the page is viewed, but are
absolutely required to ensure that the page displays properly.
Some of these tags are used by search engines and by being
savvy about how visitors use keywords will enhance the ranking of your
website on search engines, but we will cover that in a future part.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
This tag is a DTD (Document Type Declaration) It
tells a browser like Netscape, or Internet Explorer HOW to interpret
the contents of the page. |
<HTML>
This tag tells the browser that the hypertext
markup language document is starting. |
<HEAD>
<META
http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="">
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
Everything between the <HEAD> and
</HEAD> tags is invisible to people viewing your page, but it
contains very visible instructions for search engines and in many cases
the code for scripts like Javascript and External Cascading Style Sheet
links.
The information you place in your description, keywords
and Title will either enhance or detract from the ultimate ranking of
your pages with search engines.
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<BODY>
</BODY>
What you place between these tags are what your
visitors will see. Everything you are reading on this page is
between the Start and End Body tags. |
</HTML>
This tells the visitor's browser that it has arrived at the end of the page. |
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