Want to get a top ranking in search engines? Be sure to have proper meta tags included in your html. Meta tags are not a magic trick to get you to become the top website on search engines, however they provide search engine crawlers with the desired information which proves that you deserve to be thereabout.
Definition & Usage (as explained on w3schools.com)
- Metadata is information about data.
- The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable.
- Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata.
- The <meta> tag always goes inside the head element.
Most Important Tags: (What you need to fill is highlighted in red)
identifier-url This tag provides google-bot with the information on where to start indexing your website.
[meta name="identifier-URL" content="http://www.yourwebsiteurl.com"]
description Provides the description of your website, you can use a maximum of 255 characters.
[META NAME="description" CONTENT="yourdescription"]
keywords Write a maximum of 12 keywords separated by commas, which are directly connected to your content.
[meta name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3,keyword4,etc"]
language Provides the language of your website, if it is English, this is not very important but still it would be good to have.
[META NAME="Language" CONTENT="english"]
revisit This tag is important for bloggers such as yourself and for those who update their sites very frequently, otherwise it is just a waste of space. It tells google-bot, how frequently it should visit your website. Having a short interval means, you will have updated content much faster on google search engines.
<meta name="revisit-after" CONTENT="X days" />
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