This article covers the most important aspects of Meta tags in relation to website optimization or SEO.
What are Meta tags?
Meta Tags are the information inserted in the
area of the HTML code of your web pages, where apart from the Title Tag, other information inserted is not visible to the person surfing your web page but is intended for the search engine crawlers. Meta Tags are included so that the search engines are able to list your site in their indexes more accurately.What can I include in a Meta tag?
There are basically four major Meta tags that you can use:
* Open tag META name=”resource-type” content=”document” Closed tag
o The only resource type that is currently in use is “document” This is the only tag that you need to put in for indexing purposes, but use of the others is a good idea.
* Open tag META name=”description” content=”a description of your page” Closed tag
o Depending on the search engine, this will be displayed along with the title of your page in an index. “Content” could be a word, sentence or even...