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Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points
Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

SEO Title Tag

Well I've shown myself up again I think. I've just passed the code challenge for the SEO title tag.

But I was stubborn. I kept using the following

<meta name="title " content = "content goes here " />

to try and answer the challenge, because I was so sure it was the right answer. I was sure an example of this format was used in the videos, but I didn't want to go back and check before I'd answered the challenge.

But nope. The title tag exists. I mean of course it does. I've just never used it in the same context I used for the above.

I didn't even need the name attribute to "name" the SEO and get it on the screen as the challenge suggests

<title>content goes here</title>

How does it work without a content attribute to link to the browser space and SERP page. :)

1 Answer

Bryan Jenkins
Bryan Jenkins
5,438 Points
Bryan Jenkins
Bryan Jenkins
5,438 Points

Search engine "spiders" look between the "head/head" tags. Since all web pages have a "title" anyway, search engine developers figured, "Why make developers add another meta tag if the content already exists on the page" So, google and other search engines just search for the "title" tag and parse the content between it. Other meta tags, like keywords and description, are not necessarily native to a web page. Those tags were added after search engines became popular and with the birth of SEO. Developers wanted their sites to show up high on search result pages, so they were willing to add extra code to make it easier for the search engine to do its job.

Cheers and Happy Coding.