Meta Tag HELP! - ~confused~

Does anyone knows the PROPER Format for meta tags?

Is it like this:

<TITLE>How to set up proper meta tags</TITLE>

<META NAME="description" CONTENT="How to set up proper meta tags">

<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="meta, tags, metatags, description, keywords, search engines, submit a site, add url">

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or this:

<TITLE>How to set up proper meta tags</TITLE>

<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="meta, tags, metatags, description, keywords, search engines, submit a site, add url">

<META NAME="description" CONTENT="How to set up proper meta tags">

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Should the Description tag be after or before the keyword tag? Does it matter to SE's?

 

Either is okay IMO.

 

i normally put description first, because in my eyes thats more important as it describes the page.

 

I would say that both cases are ok

However, if you are looking for a more reliable quote, Peter Kent has mentioned that the order should be Title->META Description->Keywords in his popular SEO book.

Hope it helps.

 

Amen to that, Description must be first than keywords because IMO, meta descriptions must be ahead of meta keywords.

Edited: IMO, the standard order for it is:
<title></title>
<meta name="Description">
<meta name="Keywords">

Title is the best keyword of all. It must be followed by description and then keywords

 

The keywords meta tag is essentially useless anyway.

 

yeah I'd agree with every one else too, the search engines practically ignore the keywords meta tag, but there no harm in it

 

Sometimes they use the description tag for the blurb in the serps don't they? ... I'd put description first, but I dunno... heh.

 

No they don't not, especially when you are targeting long tail keywords

 

Here is another format

<meta name="keyword">kw1, kw2, kw3</meta>
<meta name="description">Here description ;) </meta>

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