Meta Tag - Definition, Types and its Uses

Started by surya3, Oct 13, 2016, 10:18 AM

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surya3

Meta tag provides metadata about the HTML document.

Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata.

Types:
  • html title.
  • meta name description.
  • meta name keywords.
  • meta name robots.
  • meta name revisit-after.
  • meta name abstract.
  • meta name author.
  • meta name contact.

Uses:

  • Used to provide such additional information in related to the web sites.
  • You can use <meta> tag to redirect your page to any other webpage.
  • Mainly useful for SEO purpose to indexing web pages based on title, description, and even keywords.

Why META tag need in all Web sites?
A person gets to read your description on a search results page before clicking on your link, showing that meta descriptions should be written for people to read rather than for robots to find.

karthick

Hello,

 Could you show me some examples of using the meta tag and related types ?  8)
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surya3

Thank you for your reply Karthick.

So now lets we specify metadata for our site ie., important information about a document, say for example we have fruit site called (chennaifruits.com).

1. Keywords meta tag: This meta tag will specify important keywords related to the document and later these keywords are used by the search engines while indexing your webpage for searching purpose.

<meta name="keywords" content="chennai fruits, fresh fruits, hygienic chennai fruits" />

2. Description meta tag: This meta tag will gives a short description about the document of you site. This again can be used by various search engines while indexing your webpage for searching purpose.

<meta name="keywords" content="chennai fruits, fresh fruits, hygienic chennai fruits" />

3. Robots meta tag: The robots meta tag will instructs all search engines not to show the page in search results.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

and also googlebot meta name will instructs Google (but no other search engines) not to show this page in its web search results.

<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex" />

4. REVISIT-AFTER meta tag: By using this tag, you can tell the spider to come back to your website and index it again. If you upload any new content to your website every week, keep the number of days around 7.
Google and Bing doesn't use this meta tag, they have their own internal date.

<meta name="revisit-after" content="period">

5. Abstract meta tag: This abstract meta tag can be used to indicate in just a very short sentence what the webpage is about. So every webpage of your website gets it's own abstract-tag.

<meta name="abstract" content="Chennai Fruits" />

6. meta name author: You can set an author name in a web page by using meta tag.

<meta name="author" content="Author Name" />

7. Contact meta tag: The meta contact name is used to add an email address. This meta tag has no influence on your search engine ranking.

<meta name="contact" content="emailaddress@chennaifruits.com" />


surya3

Meta tags Summary - Important SEO things to remember
We suggest that you use the Meta tags in your index.htm or index.html page. Than in all other important pages and last but not least in all the pages of your website. Make sure to put some extra effort in it, it will attract extra visitors to your web-page. Create relevant and different meta tags for each and every page.