The <meta> tags

eyesontech · #1 (**permalink**) 17th February 2007, 05:54 AM

meta tags formations

Meta tags are text written into the HTML code that describes your webpage to the search engines, but which is not visible in a browser window. They are placed after the </title> tag, but before the <body> tag.

There are only three meta tags of importance for search engine optimization. All others can (and should) be left out. Here are examples of the three:

<META NAME="KEYWORDS"
CONTENT="old and used books paperbacks
periodicals magazines newspapers papers
postcards post card poster old prints">

<META NAME="DESCRIPTION"
CONTENT=" Alfred's Reading Emporium
in Boulder, Colorado offers you a large
collection of used books, paperbacks,
magazines, periodicals, newspapers,
prints, posters and postcards.">

<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="ALL">

The NAME part of the tag, tells the search engine what kind of meta tag this is.

samkhan · #2 (**permalink**) 20th February 2007, 01:20 AM

Can title of a web page should be same as <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" ...

or META DESCRIPTION should be different from title of page? what will be according to search engines view.

Any suggestions?

mini_0 · #3 (**permalink**) 8th May 2007, 01:57 PM

Meta tags are basically the main keywords that are associated with your webpage as a whole . Ther are important as the search engines do look at them and index your website accordingly . Make sure they keywords are in the title as well as in the body of the text. Make sure you write a description about your page using specific information and keywords, but keep it short and sweet. All your keywords should always be relevant to the content within the page they describe. With the title tag, each search engine looks at it and uses it primarily the same way, to summarize and compile the websites contents for its search engine users.