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Meta Tag Generator
Meta Tags are one the most important parts of a web site other than your link popularity. They simply give information about your web site and are an important for getting listed in some of the search engines. Most search engines pay attention to the meta tags, especially keywords and description.
META Tags are HTML tags which provide information that describes the content of the web pages a user will be viewing. Search engines have recognized that web site owners and administrators can use this resource to control their positioning and descriptions in search engine results and many of the search engines have incorporated reading META tags as part of their indexing formulas. The goal of this guide is to help webmasters understand the most frequent META tags, their application and usage. If you are familure with the use of META tags click Create Tags to start.
- META NAME="Title"
content="The name or title of your site using 2 or 3 KEYWORDS, use a maximum of 20 words or less."
- META NAME="description"
CONTENT="Search engines that support META tags will often display the Description META tag along with your title in their results. Search engines will often capture the entire META tag of your description field, but webmasters should bear in mind that when a search engine displays the results to a user, the space is limited, usually under 20 words which you can use to grab the attention of a user. For this reason, when creating your META tags, webmasters should make the first sentence of their description field to capture the attention of a user and use the rest of the description tag to elaborate further."
- META NAME="Author"
CONTENT="OPTIONAL TAG The author META tag defines the name of the author of the document being read. This tag is not widely supported but is recognized as part of the META Tag standard. Supported data formats include the name, email address of the webmaster, company name or Internet address (URL). The most common format is to insert the name of the person or organization and a contact email address. For example: Webmaster (webmaster@uberhits.com) or http://www.uberhits.com"
- META NAME="Keywords"
CONTENT="Search engines that support META tags will often use the keywords found on your pages as a means to categorize your web site based on the search engines indexing algorithms (proprietary algorithms which index your web site in search engine databases). Ensure you choose keywords that are relevant to your site and avoid excessive repetition as many search engines will penalize your rankings for attempting to abuse their system. Similar to the Description META Tag, search engines give priority to the first few words in your description, so focus on your main keywords and then elaborate further by using synonyms or other related words."
- META NAME="Language"
CONTENT="The Language META tag declares to users the natural language of the document being indexed. Search engines which index web sites based on language often read this tag to determine which language(s) is supported. This tag is particularly useful for non-english and multiple language web sites."
- META NAME="Expires"
CONTENT="The Expires META tag defines the expiration date and time of the document being indexed. If your web site is running a limited time event or there is a preset date when your document will no longer be valid, you should include the Expires tag to indicate to search engines when to delete your web page from their database.>
The expires tag is commonly used in conjunction with the Revisit Tag as a means to get search engines to re-visit a web site every few days. This is commonly used by web sites who update their content frequently and want search engines to have a fresh copy of their content. "
- META NAME="Abstract"
CONTENT="The Abstract META tag is very similar to the description Meta tag, except its an abstraction or a brief summary of the description META tag. Generally the Abstract META tag is a one line sentence which gives an overview of the entire web page. Although search engines do not as often use this tag, it is a useful complement to search engines that read the first few lines of text of your web pages."
- META NAME="Copyright"
CONTENT="© copyright - The copyright META tag defines any copyright statements you wish to disclose about your web page documents. You may wish to indicate any trademark names, patent numbers, copyright or other information which you want to publicly disclose as your intellectual property. The Copyright META tag is a free form copyright statement which conforms to other META tag standards as shown below."
- META NAME="Revisit-After"
CONTENT="Revisit-After: Days - The Revisit META tag defines how often a search engine or spider should come to your web site for re-indexing. Often this tag is used for web sites that change their content often and on a regular basis. This tag can also be beneficial in boosting your rankings if search engines display results based on the most recent submissions."
- META NAME="Distribution"
CONTENT="The distribution META tag defines the level or degree of distribution of your web page and how it should be classified in relation to methods of distribution on the world wide web. There are currently only three forms of distribution supported by the distribution tag: Global (indicates that your web page is intended for mass distribution to everyone), Local (intended for local distribution of your document), and IU - Internal Use (not intended for public distribution)."
- META NAME="Robots"
CONTENT="All - Robots, also known as spiders, are automated programs that spider or crawl your site, or search your site on how to categorize the information you submitted to the search engine. Typically, a web site owner would submit the main page and the robots would visit your site and collect all sub pages and related links from your main page. However, this tag enables you to control which pages you would like spider, and which to ignore. For instance, certain web pages and directories (ie: CGI Scripts) you may not want indexed in the search engines. Using the robots.txt tag, you can define which pages to follow, which to index and which to ignore completely."
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