What is HTML Meta Tags - How to Build Content Related Meta Tags

HTML Meta tag written in code as <meta>. Meta tags are hidden HTML codes for web page. Meta tags are used by all search engines to index the websites. When search engines crawl the internet for required information the Meta tags provide the extra and content related information of websites / web page.

Meta tags are very useful in finding content related website information. Only use content relevant keywords / information in Meta tags otherwise it is useless. If Meta tags are good and related to content of website, the website will achieve higher rank than the competitor’s websites that doesn't have good quality meta tags.

A Meta tag provides two basic information.

<meta name=" " content=" ">

Meta NAME=" "

It defines the name of the tag. For example this use for a keyword or description tags etc.

Meta CONTENT=" "

It describe the value the tag but relevant to content of websites.

 

Examples and Types of Meta Tags

 

Meta tag "description"  (meta description tag)

Meta tag "keywords"

Meta name "robots"

Meta tag "revisit-after"

Meta tag "abstract"

Meta tag "author"

Meta tag "contact"

Meta tag "copyright"

Meta tag "distribution"

Meta tag "expires"

Meta tag" generator"

Meta tag "googlebot"

Meta tag "language"

Meta tag "news keywords"

Meta tag "no email collection"

Meta tag "rating"

Meta tag "reply-to"

Meta tag "slurp"  ( meta name slurp noydir )

Meta tag "web_author"

Meta tag "DC" Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (dc meta tags)

Meta tag rel="no follow"

Meta tag rel="canonical"

Meta tags Influence Meter

Meta tag "http=equiv"

HTML tag http-equiv "imagetoolbar"

HTML tag http-equiv "content-type"

HTML tag http-equiv "set-cookie" 

HTML tag http-equiv "content-disposition"

HTML tag http-equiv "MSThemeCompatible"

HTML tag http-equiv "pics label"

HTML tag http-equiv "pragma"

HTML tag http-equiv "refresh"

HTML tag http-equiv "resource-type"

HTML tag http-equiv "content-script"

HTML tag http-equiv "content-style-type"

HTML tag http-equiv "window-target"

HTML tag http-equiv "cache-control"