Meta Tag Guide
Learn about html meta tags for your web pages
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meta tags explained
Meta tags are one way for you to describe your web page and web site to the internet. You have the title, keywords and a description, which help your placement
in search engines. You also can identify who owns the copyright to your website, the author, what type of contents you have and other things.
Meta Tags are placed between the two head tags at the top of your web page.
<head>
</head>
meta tag list
author
Description:
Name or legal entity of the documents author
Attribute:
<meta name="author" content="name">
Set "name" to the name or legal entity of the author of the document. Separate multiple authors with commas.
Example:
<meta name="author" content="Alou Web Design">
publisher
Description:
Name or legal entity of the documents publisher
Attribute:
<meta name="publisher" content="name">
Set "name" to the name or legal entity of the publisher of the document. Separate multiple authors with commas.
Example:
<meta name="publisher" content="Alou Web Design">
company name
Description:
Company or individual operating the website. (This is not the hosting company !)
Attribute:
<meta name="company" content="name">
Company or individual operating the website. Separate multiple authors with commas.
Example:
<meta name="author" content="Alou Web Design">
copyright
Description:
Used to include copyright information in the document. Type in the company or individual name in any form applicable.
Attribute:
<meta name="copyright" content="name">
Use "text" to define the copyright owner of the document.
Example:
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright © 1999, 2004 alouwebdesign.ca, All Rights Reserved">
e-mail
Description:
E-mail address for question regarding this site. This e-mail address is also used by some search engines to confirm your submission. Note: Expect SPAM on this account !!!
Attribute:
<meta name="reply-to" content="e-mail address">
Set "e-mail address" to a valid e-mail address from your company.
Example:
<meta name="reply-to" content="submission@youraccount.com">
language
Description:
Specifies the language of the document. User from a couple of Robots to categorize documents by language.
Attribute:
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="lang">
Indicates the language of the document. .
Example:
<meta name="content-language" content="en">
Set the content language to English
content language
Description:
Specifies the language of the content, which is relevant for the browser. i.e. to download a font.
Attribute:
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="lang">
Indicates the language of the keyword.
Example:
<meta name="content-language" content="en-us">
Set the content language to English (USA)
title
Description:
Title of the web page. Use aprox 10 Words which will be your major keywords. Search engines using the "title tag" like your keyword tag. Keep your focus on two or four keywords.
Attribute:
<meta name="title" content="text">
Set "text" to the web page title.
Example:
<meta name="title" content="HTML META Tags">
page topic
Description:
Page subject. Search engines to classify your web page.
Attribute:
<meta name="page-topic" content="text">
Set "text" to the page subject.
Example:
<meta name="page-topic" content="Internet">
rating
Description:
Describes your page audience.
Attribute:
<meta name="rating" content="text">
Example:
<meta name="rating" content="All">
audience
Description:
Intended Audience.
Attribute:
<meta name="audience" content="text">
Set "text" to the intended audience.
Example:
<meta name="audience" content="General">
keywords
Description:
Spiders use the keyword tag to categorize your webpage. The keyword tag was missused in the past so it's relevance in many search engines has been downgraded. Put only the your four main keywords
which according the page contend.
Attribute:
<meta name="keywords" content="list">
"list" is the list of keywords. You may comma separate or not.
Example:
<meta name="keywords" content="free meta tag generator">
description
Description:
Some search engines pick up this description to show with the results of searches.
Attribute:
<meta name="description" content="text">
Include your description of the site or page in the "text" field. Maximize your search engine ranking and put your major keyword in the description.
Example:
<meta name="description" content="free online meta tag generator">
robots
Description:
Exclude some page from indexing. if you need over what is and is not indexed on your site, use the more widely recognized robots.txt file.
Attribute:
<meta name="robots" content="text">
Example:
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
content can consist of:
| index |
index the page |
| noindex |
do not index the page |
| follow |
follow the links from the page |
| nofollow |
do not follow the links from the page |
| noimageindex |
Prevents the images on the page from being indexed |
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