Meta Tags
June 24, 2008
META TAGS
Meta tags are information that reside in the head section of the web page. This tag is used to serve information to visitors and search engines, alike, but the code is invisible to humans who view the front page. Meta tags are different to the title tag, which outputs the title of the page. Meta tags, on the other hand, serve many purposes. The main purpose of the meta tag is to give the search engines information about the site to assist it, when indexing your site.
The main meta tags are the description and keywords tags. The meta tags are written like this for HTML sites…
Meta tags are information that reside in the head section of the web page. This tag is used to serve information to visitors and search engines, alike, but the code is invisible to humans who view the front page.
Meta tags are different to the <title></title> tag, which outputs the title of the page. Meta tags, on the other hand, serve many purposes. The main purpose of the meta tag is to give the search engines information about the site to assist it, when indexing your site. The main meta tags are the description and keywords tags.
The meta tags are written like this for HTML sites…
<META name="description" content="This is a great site">
<META name="description" content="some, nice, keywords go here">
Whereas, when writing it for a XHTML page you would write it like this…
<meta name="description" content="This is a great site" />
<meta name="keywords" content="some, nice, keywords go here" />
The title tag is written in the following way…
<title>Great Website</title> XHTML version
<TITLE>Great Website</TITLE> HTML version
These tags can be used to send information to the search engines, for example; the author of the site, to index or not to index the site, geographical location of the site and revisiting rights and the like. Checkout the W3School to see further information.
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