Having a content meta tag twice... why?

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    Having a content meta tag twice... why?

    I was looking at anthro.com tonight and I noticed they have a content tag twice in their meta... any thoughts on why.. it looked to me like they meant to make the second one a keyword tag..
     
    ominc, Feb 4, 2007 IP
  2. Tekime

    Tekime Well-Known Member

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    The content attribute of the META tag does not define the type, in the case of anthro.com they have a type="keywords" attribute specified in their META keywords, and a type="description" attribute in their META description. This is normal.
     
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    drionix Peon

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    I don't think they have a purpose on doing that. More likely a programming error. :eek:
     
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    rochow Notable Member

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    They should be like this...

    <meta name="keywords" content="">
    <meta name="description" content="">

    If they did this... <meta name="whatever" content="whatever" content="whatever"> they have made a mistake; delete one of the contents

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    I had a look at their site, its all fine (except they have way way way too many keywords, and they did this:

    which should be:
    The meta tag is description, and the "content" is the description.
    The meta tag is keywords, and the "content" is the keywords.

    Hope that makes sense
     
    rochow, Feb 5, 2007 IP