title and meta tags outside of header tags

[supernatural_247]

I'm under circumstances where I cannot put the title tag in the header tags, so I moved the title and meta tags (both calling CFM variables) to just under the body tag. A sample page in question is:

http://su-fination.com/videos/video_...fm?Video_ID=79


It appears fine in IE7 and Firefox, so does this mean that SE spiders will crawl and index the title and meta tags correctly?

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by supernatural_247

so does this mean that SE spiders will crawl and index the title and meta tags correctly?

They never will!

[supernatural_247]

Originally Posted by Webnauts

They never will!

do you mean that 'they never will' even if it's in the header?

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by supernatural_247

do you mean that 'they never will' even if it's in the header?

No. I do not mean that. If the title and meta tags are in the header, then things will be fine.

[paulhiles]

SE bots / spiders are automated software programs that crawl websites expecting to find web pages that adhere to a basic stucture (this is set by a doctype). If the document is well-formed HTML or XHTML, the spider will look for page's title and meta tags within the header area.

If they fail to find the title & meta tags within the header they will simply report a null/zero value for these elements.

[supernatural_247]

thanks for the replies, guys! I figured out how to query the db so that now the title and tags can go in the header tags. :)

but now that I've fixed that, since my site has been crawled before, will the spiders come back to crawl the pages again to see the new, correct code, or having given it a null/zero value, will they skip these pages?

[Webnauts]

Create a sitemap and submit it to Google.

[supernatural_247]

Originally Posted by Webnauts

Create a sitemap and submit it to Google.

Is there any documentation that is user-friendly for non-coders on creating Google sitemaps from Coldfusion DB values?

I don't know how to work with XML feeds. If you're talking about a traditional sitemap page (coldfusion in my case) that calls variables, I can create that. but still, I'm going to have tons of links, so a traditional sitemap won't work.

[Webnauts]

You can use this tool for xml sitemaps http://www.sitemapdoc.com/ for up to 500 pages.