What Are Meta Tags?
The word
meta means
information about.
Meta Tags were created early on to provide concise information about a website. Meta tags list information about the web page, such as the author, keywords, description, type of document, copyright, and other core information.
This is an example of a
meta tag for description:
<meta name="description" content="This is the
description sentence or short paragraph about
the article or post." />
The most common
meta tags examples include:
<meta name="resource-type" content="document" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" />
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" />
<meta name="author" content="Harriet Smith" />
<meta name="contact" content="harrietsmith@harrietsmith.us" />
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c)1997-2004
Harriet Smith. All Rights Reserved." />
<meta name="description" content="Story about my dog
giving birth to puppies." />
<meta name="keywords" content="stories, tales, harriet, smith,
harriet smith, storytelling, day, life, dog, birth, puppies, happy" />
HTML <meta> Tag
[ code ]
<title>Meta Tag Information</title>
<META name="description" content="Information on the creation and deployment of meta tags. Links to free meta creation tools">
<meta name="keywords" content="metatags,keywords,robots.txt,search engine submission,marketing optimization, registration, professional, meta tag generator, Canada, Vancouver">
[ /code ]
Use-HTML-Meta-Tags
Example
Describe metadata within an HTML document:
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials" />
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript" />
<meta name="author" content="Hege Refsnes" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
