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Peter Munkholm
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Posted on 12/06/2014 13:55:27

Wrong:

<meta name="Generator" content="Dynamicweb 8" />

Right:

<meta name="generator" content="Dynamicweb 8" />

 

Wrong:

<meta name="Description" content="Unicore is a purchasing organisation, purchasing all grades of bunker fuel in Singapore, Johor (Pasir Gudang) and Tanjung Pelepas." />

Right:

<meta name="description" content="Unicore is a purchasing organisation, purchasing all grades of bunker fuel in Singapore, Johor (Pasir Gudang) and Tanjung Pelepas." />

 

Since sloppy code is an easy way to differentiate spammy sites from profrssional site SEO-wise, when can we expect a fix for this?

BTW your field for meta-description seems to save line changes? Line changes are not possible in meta data, so why keep then, when you save the formatted data?

 


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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 12/06/2014 16:10:30
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Well, SEO specialists have so much great knowledge on wrights and wrongs... What should we do without them!

HTML 5 specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-preview/the-meta-element.html, section 4.2.5.1 Standard metadata names, second line.

But, it has now been changed as of next hotfix of 8.4.1. TFS#15083

Cheers, Nicolai

 

 
Peter Munkholm
Posted on 13/06/2014 09:32:54
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This is not essential SEO, it's complaints from our customers, who wonder why these simple basic elements are not done right. This is just sticking to the HTML standards and opholding them. Just like html tags and attributes are always lower case.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for getting back to us!
Indeed, according to the W3C, it's recommended to use lowercase attributes.
So instead of <meta name="Description", we recommend: <meta name="description"
 

 

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