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Is meta tag weaker than other tags?

by SEOBR
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I would like to know if the use of visible data instead data embedded into a meta tag will make my page to rank better.

For instances, if this:

<div itemprop="name">myitem</div>

will give me a better ranking than this:

<meta itemprop="name" content="myitem" />

Thanks!
#meta #tag #tags #weaker
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    In that example, the first one is a bit off, I believe. You are not using
    the <div> properly. I think you need to nest <span>

    <span itemprop="name">My Item</span>

    The span would be for text on the page. You do want that text to show, right?

    What do you want people to see?

    What do you want just search engines to see, or which stuff is just pertinent to
    a search engine?

    If you have stuff that is just for search engines, make it nonvisible.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author pryidevsblog
    Second one is more benefited to you.....I mean meta tags are help you more than any other tags.
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    • Profile picture of the author SEOBR
      Thank you guys!



      My fear about using meta tags is because I have read somewhere that modern SE avoid them due to the abuse of invisible information in the past and therefore such engines prefer to give priority to visible info.

      I am talking about to that 'dirty strategy' that some webmasters used years ago to add invisible tags with words that didn't refer to the actual page content to force the site appear in mostly of search results...
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