Thursday, September 2, 2010

Meta Tags. Where and how to insert meta tags in HTML code of my blog?

Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes.
The meta element has four valid attributes: content, http-equiv, name, and scheme. Of these, only content is a required attribute.  
Some meta-tags ..all values can be changed to meet your needs:
<meta name="title" content="title of your blog">
<meta name="author" content="author of the blog">
<meta name="owner" content="the owner, here is the account name/ administrator name">
<meta name="subject" content="subject of your blog ">
<meta name="rating" content="general">
<meta name="description" content="descrierea website, blog, forum">
<meta name="abstract" content="on abstract meta tag you could insert the region (ex: NewYork. USA)">
<meta name="keywords" content="key words are very important, do not use words that does not have anything to do with your content, and not more then 14 (some search engines have trouble to index your site/blog)">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="10 DAYS">
<meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">
<meta name="language" content="english, EN">
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (C)2010 your name or blogs name">
<meta name="expires" content="never">


Where to insert meta tags ?
Good question....here!
Google Groups-Designers | how to insert meta-tags and where?

Now, you know what  meta-tags are, why are they necessary you may ask...and the simple answer is that they help you in SEO and helps search engines to index and display your blog/site on the web.
In this image you will see where in HTML/CSS cod of your template to insert meta-tags.


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