Source Data -- Order of Page Attributes
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Hi everyone,
I recently began working on a site with some peculiar things going on in the source code. Namely, the <title>attribute is beneath the <meta description> and <meta keywords> attributes. </p> <p>I checked a number of the client's competitors and found that none of them have the page attributes in the source data ordered like this. Instead, they have the attributes organized more traditionally (as I've usually seen them) in the following order <title>, <meta description>, <meta keywords>.</p> <p>I'm just wondering whether or not this may have any effect on their ability to rank for the desired keyword terms. </p> <p> </p></title>
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Thanks Erica!
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The order of those items in the doesn't matter for rankings. Additionally, meta keywords are no longer used as a factor in Google's rankings, and they haven't been for many years. (Sometimes companies use that field for other things.) I suggest checking out this post from Rand about how to create the perfectly optimized page for a keyword.
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