Networking in the Penumbra presented by Geoff Huston at NZNOG
its time for meta tags what is it
1. meta tags :
1-meta tags are html tags thet tells readers and search
enginges xhat your website is all about
2-meta tags : are not visible the readers and are always
placed in between the header tags.only meta (description
tags ) is impportant,rest all meta tags are optional
3-meta description tags: describe the contents of a website in
short to readers and search engines crawlers and spiders.
4-meta keywords tags: describe the contents of your website
in short in keywords,these tags used to be important,but due
to misuse and overuse of meta keyword tags,they are no
longer important in seo.
5-meta robot tags : tells the search engine crawlers and
spiders to follow;nofollow,index or noindex the contents
of a website.if you want that search engines index the
contents of your website,then use "index" attribute name.
if you do not want search engines to index your website,then
use "noindex" attribute name in meta robot tags.
6-meta author tags tell the search engines about the author
of the website
where to place meta tags in your website
<head>
<meta name='description' content='your website description comes here'/>
<meta name='keywords' content=keyword1,keyword2, keyword3 '/>
<meta name='author' content='name of website author comes here'/>
<meta name='robots' content='all'>
<head>