What is the Head Tag For?
Monday May 12, 2008
Many novice Web developers ignore the <head> tag because it doesn't seem to do anything. In fact, if you read the specification, it's not explicitly required in valid Web pages. But if you want to have a Web page that includes a title and is visible to search engines, you'll want the <head> tag in your HTML.
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Beginners can analyse their head tags using free META tag analysers
like this one.