Placement
This tag tells the search engine or curious user the email address of author of the website. It is a good idea to include this tag, especially if you sell your webmaster services to others.
This tells the search engines and browsers the document character set, see the W3 Character Set Documentation for more information.
Use these tags to list the different keywords you would like search engines to list you for. Select relevant keywords to the content on your site. It is important to have a high keyword relevancy and a good keyword density.
Use this meta tag to describe your website. This should be user friendly because many search engines display this text as the description of your website.
This tag should be included so that you can claim credit for the site and as information services (like Alexa) may list this information.
This tag plays two parts, the first part is to tell a search engine whether or not to index the current page and the next is to tell it whether or not to follow links on the page. The possible values are: Index, NoIndex & Follow, NoFollow.
This tells the Robot how long to wait before it revisits the page.
This tells the search engines and browsers what language the page is in.
This classifies the rating of your page. Possible values are; General, 14 years, Restricted, Mature.
This tag is optional as most webmasters want their site to be viewed worldwide. However, if your site is relevant only locally then this may be a good opportunity to use this tag.
Although this is not a meta tag is should be treated with care. It should be used as an extension of the keywords of the page yet user-friendly.
Conclusion
Use all the tags above and follow the guidelines and a large amount of your search engine optimization is complete. Although large companies will hire professionals for the job smaller companies do it themselves as it is relatively simple. Meta tags are a vital part of the search engine optimization process. The rumour that they are now not important is not true, as Google, the search engine giant, has mentioned in the SEO section on its website.
About the Author
Benjamin Wigoder is a part-time webmaster who has proven that anybody can be successful on the web.
Visit www.benwiggy.com for more info on website building
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Meta Tags And How To Use Them - Part 2
