We use Meta tags in many sites
for various purposes. Especially it plays a vital role in SEO. Here I am going
to discuss about some Meta Tags we use.
Keywords- Meta Tag
This is the most useful Meta Tag
for SEO. This Meta tag provides the search engines the information about the content
of your site. Choosing Excellent Meta tags will lead you to your the desired consequence
in SEO. Keywords- Meta Tag is like this:
< meta
name="keywords" content="some keyword,another keyword"
/>
Put comma after every key-word.
Description- Meta Tag
This Meta tag is also important
for web site. It will reflect the main content of your site on search engine. Basically
this tag is used to describe the content of your blog. This Meta tag is like this-
< meta
name="description" content="A blurb to describe the content of
the page appears here"/>
Author- Meta Tag
You can use this Meta tag for the
visitors of your site telling them about the author or blogger of your blog.
This Meta tag is like this-
<meta name="author"
content="hasan faisal" />
Revisit-After- Meta Tag
If you use this Meta tag then
your site will be visited & indexed after a certain lag of time.
Like-
if you use this tag then your site will be revisited after every 15 days. You
can change the time according to your need.
<meta name="revisit"
content="15 days"/>
Refresh- Meta Tag
Who likes to update their site in
every minute this Meta tag will be helpful for them. Because visitor feel
bother to refresh these kind of sites again & again. So you can specify a
certain time for auto refreshment with this tag. Like-
<meta
http-equiv="refresh" content="600">
If you add this tag on your site
then your site will be automatically refreshed after every 5minutes.
Robots- Meta Tag
This Meta tag plays a vital role
on search engine. With this Tag you can instruct the robot of search engine to
index your site. If you use following tag then the robot will understand that
it can index your site.
<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">
Or, if you use this tag that
means you are telling not to index your site.
<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
There are some more tags for
Robots. Like-
ARCHIVE- Meta Tag
This tag allows you to archive all
data in search engine. If you want to then use-
<meta name=”robots”
content=”ARCHIVE” />
Or if you won’t then-
<meta name=”robots”
content=”NOARCHIVE” />
ODP/YDIR- Meta Tag
ODP means open directory project.
When Google search engine robot doesn’t find any description tag in a site that
time they take help of DMOZ. If you want Google to avoid this thing then you
can use this tag- <meta name=”robots” content=”NOODP” />
Or, if you want Google to do this
then use this tag- <meta name=”robots” content=”ODP” />
Yahoo does the same thing like
Google. But in that case Yahoo uses its self open directory project (YDIR). So in
case of Yahoo you can use these codes-
<meta name=”robots”
content=”NOYDIR” />
&
<meta name=”robots” content=”YDIR” />
There are various search engines
on internet. But there are some search engines for what you have to use specific
robots Meta tags. Like-
For
Google <meta name="googlebot" content=”index">
For
Yahoo <meta name="Slurp" content=”index">
For MSN<meta
name="msnbot" content=”index">
Language META Tag
This Meta tag let you know which
language is used on your blog. Usually, English is the most commonly used
language for websites. This tag is like-
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language"
content="EN">
That's all for today! Have nice day!
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