What is the different between "Title" and "Meta name"

what is the different between:
<title> example </title>

and
<meta name= content="example"/>

1-Are they different?

2-Should the content be the same i.e example for both tags?

3-Can I ignore the meta name if want to? is it important?

4-Can I use capital letter words in the meta name?

Thanks to everyone

 

Title tag is used for giving title to the page as you can see in the browser, whenever you open any page, it has some title, if you don't define the title, by default it will "Untitled Page". And meta tags are defined for the Search Engines, so pls don't ingnore, use the meta tags in this manner

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="Expires" content="never" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Your Keyword, Your Keyword" />
<meta name="keyphrases" content="Your Key Phrase, Your Key Phrase, Your Key Phrase" />
<meta name="description" content="Your Description" />

 

You people search instead of posting questions. There are no use in using META Tags. Google is not considering META tags now a days for its search process. This was told by Matt Cutt a Senior Developer of Google in his blog.

 

I totally agree with that Google does not give importance but, using the meta tags doesn't cost you anything, coz other search engines still do

 

Sorry Altex, I disagree with you. Google still considering effective on page optimization, especially Title tag is much important. but Google stops considering meta keywords.

 

I have thought you can add keyphrases within the meta keywords can you do that or is it better to do them separately..

Also how many words/phrases should I enter in:
meta keywords
meta keyphrases
meta description

Thank you for your help.

 

there is a difference, look beyond the similar characters

 

I know they are different. I just wanted to know this way is better for SEO..thanks also how many words/keyphrases should they be and how long is the descriptions.

I have read in SEO book that the title should be 80 char long no more is that right..

Thanks

 

I still give importance to description as a meta tag and have yield great results.

See google own webmaster guidelines regarding meta tags here:

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

 

Title tag is normally used for displaying title at the top of the window and it is also being used for linking any text or giving some important to that content which we have made.It is also important because most of the search engine give them importance too.
Normally meta tag is being used to provide some more information about the content which you are going to put on you page, which will be used by other companies search engines. Nowadays people use it because many of them have are still indexing meta tag,but Google stopped using on meta tag elements in there search engine.

 

Thanks Guys, this is very helpful from all of you

 

ya its right, tiitle is a title of your page.dnt ignore title and meta tags, both has importance in seo.botha are main and basics of SEO.

thanks

weightlosssurgeryasia

 

Prooflink or never happened.

 

Smithy

The <title> </title> is extremely important from a SEO point of view. In fact, the rule of thumb I use is to use my Number 1 & 2 important keywords (related to the page) in the title. There are no rules; but an ideal length for the Title tag is about 60~70 characters. You can put more, but you dilute the SEO relevance of the keywords the longer your title is.

Regards,
Amit

 

Title Limit: 60-70 characters
Description Limit : 250-300 characters
keywords Limit: 250-300 characters

 

Google is not considering META tags now a days for its search process................... dont waste time..........

 

And again... Give me a prooflink so I could trust your words. Thank you.

No offense, just wondering if this could be a misleading to get rid of competitors

 

Sorry Altex, I am totally disagree. Title and Meta tags are very important from Search Engine Optimization point of view.

 

really good information about title tags and metatags

 

Thanks for everyone, all info has been very helpful