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Really Basic SEO Guide (Beginners) - bl4cklak3 - 11-10-2024

A simple guide to HTML <head> elements

Recommended Minimum

Below are the essential elements for any web document (websites/apps):
Code:
<meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <!-- The above 2 meta tags *must* come first in the <head> to consistently ensure proper document rendering. Any other head element should come *after* these tags. --> <title>Page Title</title>


meta charset - defines the encoding of the website, utf-8 is the standard

meta name="viewport" - viewport settings related to mobile responsiveness

width=device-width - use the physical width of the device (great for mobile!)

initial-scale=1 - the initial zoom, 1 means no zoom

Valid <head> elements include meta, link, title, style, script, noscript, and base.

These elements provide information for how a document should be perceived, and rendered, by web technologies. e.g. browsers, search engines, bots, etc.

Code:
<!-- Set the character encoding for this document, so that all characters within the UTF-8 space (such as emoji) are rendered correctly. --> <meta charset="utf-8"> <!-- Set the document's title --> <title>Page Title</title> <!-- Set the base URL for all relative URLs within the document --> <base href="https://example.com/page.html"> <!-- Link to an external CSS file --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css"> <!-- Used for adding in-document CSS --> <style> /* ... */ </style> <!-- JavaScript & No-JavaScript tags --> <script src="script.js"></script> <script> // function(s) go here </script> <noscript> <!-- No JS alternative --> </noscript>

Meta Tags
Code:
<!-- The following 2 meta tags *must* come first in the <head> to consistently ensure proper document rendering. Any other head element should come *after* these tags. --> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <!-- Allows control over where resources are loaded from. Place as early in the <head> as possible, as the tag only applies to resources that are declared after it. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src 'self'"> <!-- Name of web application (only should be used if the website is used as an app) --> <meta name="application-name" content="Application Name"> <!-- Theme Color for Chrome, Firefox OS and Opera --> <meta name="theme-color" content="#4285f4"> <!-- Short description of the document (limit to 150 characters) --> <!-- This content *may* be used as a part of search engine results. --> <meta name="description" content="A description of the page"> <!-- Control the behavior of search engine crawling and indexing --> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"><!-- All Search Engines --> <meta name="googlebot" content="index,follow"><!-- Google Specific --> <!-- Tells Google not to show the sitelinks search box --> <meta name="google" content="nositelinkssearchbox"> <!-- Tells Google not to provide a translation for this document --> <meta name="google" content="notranslate"> <!-- Verify website ownership --> <meta name="google-site-verification" content="verification_token"><!-- Google Search Console --> <meta name="yandex-verification" content="verification_token"><!-- Yandex Webmasters --> <meta name="msvalidate.01" content="verification_token"><!-- Bing Webmaster Center --> <meta name="alexaVerifyID" content="verification_token"><!-- Alexa Console --> <meta name="p:domain_verify" content="code_from_pinterest"><!-- Pinterest Console--> <meta name="norton-safeweb-site-verification" content="norton_code"><!-- Norton Safe Web --> <!-- Identify the software used to build the document (i.e. - WordPress, Dreamweaver) --> <meta name="generator" content="program"> <!-- Short description of your document's subject --> <meta name="subject" content="your document's subject"> <!-- Gives a general age rating based on the document's content --> <meta name="rating" content="General"> <!-- Allows control over how referrer information is passed --> <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer"> <!-- Disable automatic detection and formatting of possible phone numbers --> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <!-- Completely opt out of DNS prefetching by setting to "off" --> <meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"> <!-- Specifies the document to appear in a specific frame --> <meta http-equiv="Window-Target" content="_value"> <!-- Geo tags --> <meta name="ICBM" content="latitude, longitude"> <meta name="geo.position" content="latitude;longitude"> <meta name="geo.region" content="country[-state]"><!-- Country code (ISO 3166-1): mandatory, state code (ISO 3166-2): optional; eg. content="US" / content="US-NY" --> <meta name="geo.placename" content="city/town"><!-- eg. content="New York City" --> <!-- Web Monetization https://webmonetization.org/docs/getting-started --> <meta name="monetization" content="$paymentpointer.example">



RE: Really Basic SEO Guide (Beginners) - bl4cklak3 - 11-13-2024

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RE: Really Basic SEO Guide (Beginners) - bl4cklak3 - 11-17-2024

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RE: Really Basic SEO Guide (Beginners) - bl4cklak3 - 11-18-2024

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