HTML meta tags Introduction
Before learning How to Use HTML meta tags, we should learn about basics of meta tags. In our
Previous chapter of SEO training, i focused on the importance of keywords in search engine optimization process and in this chapter i am going guide you about Meta tags and how to use HTML Meta tags in Blogs.
What are HTML Meta tags?
Meta tags are elements used in
SEO in form of HTML documents to provide structured
Meta Data about a web page or blogs. In SEO HTML Meta tags are part of a web page's head section. Multiple Meta elements with different
Attributes can be used on the same page.
These meta tags are used to define page description, keywords, category, author of document, verification of ownership, last modified and others meta data.
By Whom these Meta Tags can be used?
These meta tags can be used by web browsers, search engines, crawlers, bots to collect knowledge about the webpages and make display webpage in search results. Search engine bots and crawlers are not real human beings, they understand the language on meta tags easily. In Search engine optimization training HTML Meta tags plays a vital role in ranking pages higher in search engines.
How HTML Meta tags looks like?
Lets see a below HTML codings used for Meta tags:
<head> <title>This is title of page, not a meta tag but required before using meta description and meta keywords</title>
<meta name="description" content="Page Description Here">
<meta name="keywords" content="Keyword1, Keyword 2, Keyword 3">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> </head>
Meta name (Description): This meta tags is used to describe the page. It gives brief description of page in search engine results. See in below image
Always use 155 characters description for good results.
Meta name (Keywords): 'Keywords' meta tags are words generally used to rank higher in search engine results. But over use and spammy of keywords may harm your web page. Number of average keywords to use in meta tags is 10.
List of Some other useful Meta tags:
<meta name="robots" content="selection">
How far do you allow robots to spider through your website.
<meta name="revisit-after" content="periode">
How often do you want the spiders to come back and index your website again.
<meta name="googlebot" content="noodp">
You now tell the Googlebot NOT to duplicate the ODP description but the description which is located on your website.
<meta name="copyright" content="text">
Used for telling copyright ownership of contents.
<meta name="language" content="english">
In what language you are publishing your contents.
How to Use Meta Tags in Blogs (Step by Step Guide):
Step 1: Open your template Editor.
For persons who are using their blogs in www.blogger.com, follow these steps to edit their template:
Login in Blogger>> Go to Dashboard>> Template>> Edit HTML
Step 2: Find <head> section in your template, to find easily press Ctrl+F keys and it shows a search box, then type <head> to locate this code in your template.
Step 3: Then place your HTML meta tags in your template just under
<head> section
<head>
<!-- Meta Tags ~ www.tips2secure.com --> <title>TITLE PF YOUR PAGE</title> <meta name="description" content="BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PAGE">
<meta name="keywords" content="KEYWORD 1, KEYWORD 2, KEYWORD 3, KEYWORD 4, KEYWORD 5">
<meta name="copyright" content="YOUR TEXT">
<meta name="language" content="YOUR CONTENT LANGUAGE">
<!-- /Meta Tags ~ www.tips2secure.com -->
Note: If these codes are already given in your template then just edit the CAPITAL LETTERS keywords shown in demo, don't use double tags.
Step 4: Now save your Template.
Now check your desciption, keywords and title by clicking
here
You're done!
If you face any problem in place these HTML meta tags in your website or blog, then comment your queries here, i will help you in placing these meta tags for your site/blogs.
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