Meta tags are technically HTML tags used to describe our website. In the meta-tags we provide information about the website in the form of keywords. Normally we place the meta-tags after the <Title> tag in HTML file. A meta-tag look like <META name="Description" content="The content of the website"> Types of meta-tags: • Meta Title Element - Page Titles • Meta robots • Meta Owner • Meta Author • Meta Copyright • Meta Content-Type • Meta description • Meta keyword tag In SEO, we prefer Meta Title Element, Meta description and Meta keyword tags. Meta Title Element: <Title>Short description of the website</Title> Search engines heavily rely on the Title Meta tag in order to determine what the website is about. Try to keep the title tag short and concise (63 characters with Spaces approximately). Meta Description: <META name="description" content="a description of your page"> Depending on the search engine, this is displayed with the title of website. "content" could be a word, sentence or even paragraph to describe your page precisely. We keep this reasonably short, concise and to the point. Mostly search engines recommend description around 156 characters with spaces. Meta keyword: <META name="keywords" content="a, list, of, keywords"> in this tag we choose keywords related to our website and then insert it after “contentâ€, separated by commas. (256 characters approximately with Spaces)
Good information that a lot of people would not be aware of. There are still people who do not theink that Meta tgs hold s much significance as they used to.
They don't hold any SEO significance. Title attribute is important as it tells google where the site should go but its not a meta tag. Description is useful for marketing but not seo and the keyword tag might as well not even be there. Nigel
I've read recently that Bing places some important on meta data including how they rank sites. Nigel is correct however, that for the most part, they don't hold much importance, at least not as much as they used to.
ROFLMAO NONE of the meta elements hold ANY SEO value (i.e. NONE of them help you're URL rank)... The meta description is important because if it IS well written it "can" increase click-thru-rates. But it has no affect on SEO. And as Nigel said, for the 1,000,000th time... PLEASE EVERYONE READ... <TITLE> element is NOT a "meta" element... If it does NOT start with <meta then it is NOT a meta element....
Right now Meta tags aren't weighted in SEO as much as prior years, so all this info is good but not needed in search engine optimization.
Google don't give much importance to meta-keywords tags but yahoo and bing considers the meta-keywords tags and have an importance for these tags
You can be right regarding the meta keywords tag, but for the rest, I don't think so. If you check the search engines results for any keywords, you will find the pages with keywords arranged in the topmost priority in the title and meta description tags appearing on the top. So yes, it still holds a lot of value.
Great, Good information about Meta Tags & their Importance in SEO. Its shows your experience and efficiency in seo. So keep it up