Is my meta tag code right?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by PeterA, May 11, 2009.

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  1. #1
    Hi everyone,

    Hey I was trying one of these on page seo checkers and put my site in and it threw up this meta tag error:

    There seems to be a problem. The most common problem is incorrect formatting. Make sure your format is meta name=xxxx content=xxxx. Also ensure the element is correctly closed.

    Are my meta tags formatted right? Here one now:
    <meta name="Description" content="Mig welding is a very common and used throughout the world. Is the easiest process to learn how to weld.">

    The only thing I might see is that some other pages on other sites will have a forward slash at the end of the code like this: "/>

    1. Do I need this slash?
    2. Is that what the problem is?

    Used this checker: http://www.seedkeywords.com/pagecheck/

    Peter
    Australia
     
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  2. technista

    technista Guest

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    Well I do think that you need the forward slash at the end, but it seems to me that these site "analysers" are not perfect. Heck I even checked google on it and they said the exact same message, so I wouldn't trust it.
     
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  3. ExtremeData

    ExtremeData Well-Known Member

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    #3
    You need the slash if your page is coded into XHTML, if is coded into HTML you don't need the slash.
    Check if your doctype (should be the first line into your document source) is HTML or XHTML .
     
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  4. qazu

    qazu Well-Known Member

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    What the forward slash does is close the tag. For XHTML code to be valid you must close all tags, even ones that don't have any content, like <br />, <hr />, meta tags, image tags, etc. The page still works without the forward slash at the end, it's just not valid XHTML code though.
     
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  5. melbel

    melbel Notable Member

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    I ran my site through that and it said the same thing. There is no issue with my site for SEO, either... I know that for a fact.
     
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    uldisx1 Active Member

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    at the end you need to write />

    <meta name="description" content="Mig welding is a very common and used throughout the world. Is the easiest process to learn how to weld." <meta name="Description" content="Mig welding is a very common and used throughout the world. Is the easiest process to learn how to weld." />
     
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  7. PeterA

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    So whats the verdict then?

    My page just seems to be HTML only, so just leave it then?
     
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  8. ExtremeData

    ExtremeData Well-Known Member

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    #8
    If you give us a link to the page will can help you.
     
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  11. hostcoin

    hostcoin Peon

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    Well, It depends on the HTML Document Type.

    e.g
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    Here all HTML tags should ended with />
     
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