Meta Tags

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Cyras John, Jan 17, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hello Friends..:)

    As all SEO's are using Meta Tags for their websites..

    So Please can you tell me that what are Meta Tags?? What is the purpose of Meta Tags and What do Meta Tags look like??

    Thanks:)
     
    Cyras John, Jan 17, 2011 IP
  2. david.j

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    we can define our website by meta tag it's like data about data, in meta tag we use keywords and description mostly.
     
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  3. DIA_8497

    DIA_8497 Well-Known Member

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    Hi,

    Meta tags are already thr in ur website placed in signature.

    Thanks :)
     
    DIA_8497, Jan 17, 2011 IP
  4. atxsurf

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    meta tags are only visible to search engines and give then more info about page (e.g. keywords, description, robots)
     
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  5. Adnan959

    Adnan959 Member

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    Have a read over here - Search Engine Optimization.

    This is how Meta Tags look like:
    <title>PAGE TITLE GOES HERE.</title>
    <meta name="description" content="DESCRIPTION OF WEB PAGE GOES HERE."/>
    <meta name="keywords" content="KEYWORDS SEPARATED WITH COMMAS GO HERE."/>
    Code (markup):
    The TITLE will be shown as the top BLUE link when you first open Google, the description will be the explanation text under that BLUE link. Keywords on the other hand are SEARCH QUERIES people use specific search queries to target precise traffic into their website.

    Recently search engines aren't that considerate about Meta tags but they certainly do help.

    The Title and Description tags on the other hand are quite important, try to use a keyword in the title and another in the description for best results.

    You get a good idea of this as you move along.

    Hope this helped.

    Thanks
     
    Adnan959, Jan 17, 2011 IP
  6. marylandlawoffice

    marylandlawoffice Member

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    #6
    Meta tag look like Code.

    <title>PAGE TITLE GOES HERE.</title>
    <meta name="description" content="DESCRIPTION OF WEB PAGE GOES HERE."/>
    <meta name="keywords" content="KEYWORDS SEPARATED WITH COMMAS GO HERE."/>

    Meta Title ---> 60 To 70 Character
    Meta Description ----> 235 To 250 Character
    Meta Keyword -----> we are target maxmum 5 to 8 Keyword on per page.
     
    marylandlawoffice, Jan 17, 2011 IP
  7. webdev007

    webdev007 Active Member

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    These are HTML or XHTML tags that provides information about the web page. Meta tags may contain information about what the page is about (keywords and description), language, author, when it was write and much more. Many search engines use this information when indexing pages, because these tags help the search engines to understand the contents of a site. Putting correct Meta tags in the header part of an HTML document is called on-page optimization in Search Engine Optimization world.
     
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  8. pradiprg

    pradiprg Active Member

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    Meta tag is nothing but a short description of the content you are going to publish. It helps search engine to know about the page and content.
     
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    Meta tags provides the information about your Web page to search engine robots, so that it would be easy for the search engine to know what your site is about.
    If the meta tags are so long then it would be considered as spam and also it should not be too short.
     
    ponsankari, Jan 17, 2011 IP
  10. buzinessware

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    Meta tags are valuable information to search engines and tell them how to categorize and handle your website.
     
    buzinessware, Jan 17, 2011 IP
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    Kiranraj Well-Known Member

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    #11
    Meta tags are consist of title, meta description & meta keywords tags. They are useful for giving information about the pages to the visitors & search engines...
     
    Kiranraj, Jan 17, 2011 IP
  12. arunthe

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    hi
    meta tags are very important for web site. in meta tags title, description,keywords,robo ect....
     
    arunthe, Jan 17, 2011 IP
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    Meta tags are used to describe your website to the search engine. it is invisible from the end users. Meta tags of a website contains three tags title tag, description tag and robots.txt tag. The syntax for the meta tags are given below

    <title>PAGE TITLE GOES HERE.</title> - upto 70 characters
    <meta name="description" content="DESCRIPTION OF WEB PAGE GOES HERE. "/> - upto 150 characters
    <meta name="robots" content="index,follow,all" />

    For more details you can check the search engine webmaster forum.
     
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  14. makbradson

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    Meta Tags is data about data. meta tags are placed in head section of website. it provides information to search engine about title, description, author etc. Meta tags are useful to search engine. meta tags are not visible to users.
     
    makbradson, Jan 17, 2011 IP
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    The most important Meta tags for SEO are your title tag and your page description. Keywords must be used in the TITLE tag, description Meta tag text be brief, but informative and attractive. A lot of search engine display information from this tag in their search results if this tag present on a page.
     
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    Meta Keyword is no longer important?. Everyone for the comments.
     
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    A site’s Meta tags may not be as important as it used to be before, however I feel that Meta Description is something you can’t just ignore. A site’s Meta description should contain a brief description of your website focusing on the areas and services that your business is specialized in.
    Important things to include in your Meta Description:
    • Include your Selling Point– Tell your customers what they want to hear through your site’s Meta Description, and you will definitely get some advantage over others in the SERP.
    • Keywords – Including some of your keywords will give you some advantage in Google’s relevancy algorithm.
     
    HarryJackson, Jan 18, 2011 IP
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    #18
    For all in one seo we cann't ignore keywords as well as meta tags. Both are important.
     
    Litonice09, Jan 18, 2011 IP