Head Section -
The
Head tag <HEAD> is the html command that opens the section that contains within it
a series of commands that are important for the search engine and browsers,
but which visitors to the page do not see. An HTML page includes two
sections, the head, and the
Body that contains
the text that visitors see on the Web page itself.
Importance of Closing the Head Section
It is important to make sure that the </Head> tag properly closes the head
section before the body tag. Browsers may display the page in any case, but
search engine spiders can become very confused!
Coding the Head
The structure of an HTML
page should be like this:
<HTML>
<TITLE>The page title goes here</TITLE> //
Title tag
<META name="Description" content="A description of the page goes here">
<META name="keywords" content="[keywords go here]">
<META http-equiv="Content-Language"...
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
The Body goes here.
</BODY>
</HTML>
The Head will also contain addition directives regarding language, styles, Java
scripts, instructions to robots and the like, but it should have the
Title tag , Description tag and Keywords tag in that order first thing after
the <HEAD> tag, and they should be filled out correctly.
Ami Isseroff
October 1, 2008
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