Meta Tags ?
One of the sites most important steps in creating an SEO friendly site is Meta tags and the page titles, although Google no longer searches the keyword There are three main areas Meta tags can be divided in and they are:
- Description Meta tags
- Keyword Meta tags
- Robots Meta tags and NoODP Meta tags
Title Tags:
The Title tags are one the most important part of your web page. The page title sums up the content in that page.
Keep in mind that most used look for Keywords and Phrases that are relative to your to what their searching for. Your main objective is to make sure your site is included into these Result Pages so to make the chance of your site being added and displayed first in a search engine use every keyword and Phrase that you believe someone might use when searching for specific information that can be found in your site.
When writing the title tags make sure that this tag contains key phrases that sum up the page and any sub keyword phrase. Such as “introducing SEO” the main phrase and “for Beginners” the sub phrase.
Quick Tips:
Use the best keywords from your page in your page title tag:
Example:
< title >Meta tags Basics< title >
Meta Tag Descriptions
The description Meta tags should be short one or two sentences that sum up the page content.
Most search engines index this content and display this content as a site description which is displayed right underneath your sites hyperlink. The Meta tag description is only aloud to hold 140 to 200 characters. You can also place the beginning of your first paragraph of that page inside the description tag.
Example:
< "" meta name="description" content= “this pages is in depth look into how to use meta tags for SEO purposes”
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Keyword Meta tags
This is the tag where you list out all the keyword and the keyword phrases throughout your site these keywords can be any repetitive words found throughout the content your site. If the keywords of the phrase you added to the tag are not in content then it should not be placed in the Meta tag.
Due to abuse of thee keyword tag search engines no longer place a high value on this tag. Meaning this tag doesn’t hold as much weight as the other tags, but you because there are a lot of search engines that still rely on this tag so you should still add it to your site.
Are Keywords throughout your site content, you use unlimited amount of keywords.
Robots Meta tags and NoODP Meta tags:
One of the newest Meta Tags created by Google. This tags main function is to tell the search engine Robots not to search or evaluate that pages content. The NoODP tag allows you to choose what content you don’t want for the Open Directory to search.
This tag allows the use to limit the content that allowed to be searched by the search engine robots.