Correct Way to Write Meta

[RiceMedia]

OK so this is a really, really basic question.  However, I'm seeing some meta written differently to normal and I'm wondering if a) this is correct and b) whether there is any benefit.

Normally it's like this:

However, I am seeing it written like this is some places:

So, the content= and name= are swapped around.  I assume the people that did this were thinking that bringing the content forward would mean that Google reads keywords first.

Just wondering if anybody knows whether this is good practice or not?  Just spiked my interest so apologies for the basic nature of the question!

[Jinx14678]

Hi,

In regards to google, I think the best source of determining this would be Google

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79812

To answer your question though, Google states it should be

There could be other search engines who prefer it the other way, but switching it around in my opinion would not help with rankings or keywords anymore than

the

[Aeronet]

As long as all the informations are there, I don't think the order matters.

Same thing for a link, you can have

example.com

And put the target or the title before the href, the link would still work fine.

[RiceMedia]

Thanks guys - much appreciated.  Personally I didn't think it mattered which way it went round, however just interested to hear if there was a good reason for this.  The a href= example is a good example of how it shouldn't really matter.