Head Section
The tags that you place inside the head tags will not be displayed in the browser window.
It is inside this tag you will place and keep all the meta tags used for the search engines. They're important to search engines that use them to index your pages.
Meta tags - A special HTML tag that provides information about a Web page. Unlike normal HTML tags, meta tags do not affect how the page is displayed. They provide information for the search engines such as what the page is about and which keywords represent the page's content. Many search engines use this information when building their index.
- The first tag you will need to place inside this section is the content type meta tag
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">- This declares the page content being text and html. The Charset property
appends the name of a character-set to the content-type. Default character set
is ISO-LATIN-1.
Charset - creates a new narrow language-specific character set, or redefines an existing one. - Second you will need to declare the default content language used for the page.
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us">- The language attribute specifies the natural language for the page.
- Complete Language code list
- Third you will place your title tag.
<title>Place Page Title Here</title>- Think of this as the chapter title of a book. Each page of your site should have a different title.
- The text inside this tag is displayed at the top left side of the browser
window and plays an important role to the search engines. The contents of this
tag should, in a few words describe the page. "Our home Page" or "Introduction"
are not good titles. "Home page for Acme Brick and Mortar Company" or "Introduction
to the process of smoothing steel" are better titles.
Your text editor page should now look like the following.