Noob question... what is a meta tag?

Discussion in 'Publisher Network' started by alsjforever, Jul 17, 2006.

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    it might be a dumb question, but what is meta tag and how does it help?
     
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  2. Monty

    Monty Peon

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    #2
    Have a look at the source code of this page, you'll get a part of the answer in the first five lines.

    
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.6.0 Release Candidate 2" />	
<meta name="keywords" content="search engine marketing" />
<meta name="description" content="Search Engine Optimization and Marketing forum." />
    Code (markup):
    The mains tags are keywords and descriptions, many people will tell you that most of search engines no longer rely upon it, but it doesn't hurt to fill them properly.

    There is other types of meta tags.

    for more informations, you can find it here:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html
     
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  3. websiteideas

    websiteideas Well-Known Member

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    If you're concerned about SEO, focus more on your title, h1, and anchor text.
     
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  4. alsjforever

    alsjforever Guest

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    can someone tell me what h1 and anchor text is? also anyone know the tips for writing those?
     
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  5. D3Si

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    #5
    Take HTML OnlinE Class...
     
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  6. livingearth

    livingearth Well-Known Member

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    #6
    H1 is a reference to header tags, for example....
    <H1> Important Keyword </H1>
    Code (markup):
    Anchor text is the text used as the clickable portion of a link, for example...
    <a href="http://www.yoururl.com">Anchor Text Here</a>
    Code (markup):
    Both of these are important to SEO as well as meta tags
     
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    If you dont know what these mean you better make it a mission to learn about them. :) Esp anchor text! These are 2 of the most powerful seo tricks of the trade.
     
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    ArcticPro Banned

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    For future reference, this is the Yahoo! Publisher Network (Y!PN) forum.
     
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