Join Morten Rand-Hendriksen for an in-depth discussion in this video Defining meta headers for a page, part of Using Accessibility to Improve SEO.
META tags are pieces of information hidden in the header of every web page that…provide added information to the browser.…The META tags are hidden from the regular browser window but are used both…by browsers and search engines to understand and display additional…information about your page.…For Accessibility and SEO, there are two very important Meta tags you should…always focus on, Title and Description.…The Title tag provides the title for the page.…When I say Title, I don't mean the heading or the first heading of the page;…I literally mean the title of the page.…
Each page has a name or a title.…This title can be different from the title of the article itself.…For instance, you could make an article called About me, whereas the title would…be About Morten Rand- Hendriksen, so it's more specific.…The accessibility of a Title tag is that it sets the page title before any…other content, so the first thing that's read by a text-to-speech browser is the title.…It also adds the title to the browser window or tab, so you will notice at…
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12/6/2011- Understanding the benefits of accessibility and SEO
- Evaluating screen readers for Windows and Mac
- Installing browser development tools
- Comparing sites that are SEO-friendly and SEO-unfriendly
- Defining a language for a page
- Creating better semantic markup with HTML5
- Marking up images and links properly
- Creating an accessible menu with an unordered list
Skill Level Intermediate
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