There are basically four major meta tags that you can use: * <META name="resource-type" content="document"> o The only resource type that is currently in use is "document" This is the only tag that you need to put in for indexing purposes, but use of the others is a good idea. * <META name="description" content="a description of your page"> o Depending on the search engine, this will be displayed along with the title of your page in an index. "content" could be a word, sentence or even paragraph to describe your page. Keep this reasonably short, concise and to the point. However, don't be so mean with your description that its not an appropriate reflection of the contents! * <META name="keywords" content="a, list, of, keywords"> o Choose whatever keywords you think are appropriate, seperated by commas. Remember to include synoyms, americanisms and so on. So, if you had a page on cars, you might want to include keywords such as car, cars, vehicles, automobiles and so on. * <META name="distribution" content="one of several"> o Content should contain either global, local or iu (for Internal Use). To be perfectly honest, I can't quite get my head around this one; its supposed to list available resources designed to allow the use to find things easily, but I still don't quite get it. My advice is to stick to "global". For more information, you can read wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element You can create meta tag for every web page of your site. Syntax of meta tag is : <head> <Title> My Web Page</title> <meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials" /> <meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript" /> <meta name="author" content="Hege Refsnes" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" /> </head> Hope this post is helpful for you.
In the page header can place title , description, keywords, block indexing and caching etc.. like the following <meta name="keywords" content="xxxxx" /> <meta name="description" content="xxxxx" />
You need to check the source code of the HTML page to find that out. All metatags are defined in the head section of the page.
Meta tags are very important for any website.............if your webpage have good meta tags and that are most appropriate for search engine then you can get good ranking on just on page optimization.
With meta data you are basically telling the search engines what your website is about. Its just a language that the search engines use.