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LEARN on how to use META TAGS on your WEB PAGE
For those of you who don't care how META tags work and just want to use them, copy the below tags and paste them between the
<HEAD> and
</HEAD> tags of your web page and fill in the approprite information.
<META name="Description" content="Write your description here">
<META name="Keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3,...">
If you want to know more, keep reading...
META tags have many uses; they can be used to give information to a server, tell your browser to do something, or store infomation about the current document. If you are using Windows and IE4+ you probally saw the page fade in instead of just opening - that was done using META tags.
As the HTML languages evolves, the tedious chore of typing in your URL, keywords, description and title every time you submit your homepage to a search engine is becoming obsolete. Besides the pain-in-the-ass that is to you, without META tags to store all that info, each search engine would have to keep a massive database that it looks through everytime someone does a search.
Anyway, here is a list of some other useful META tags with a short description...
<META name="Author" content="put your name here">
This is useful if you want to make sure you get credit for your page.
<META name="Generator" content="(see below)">
This tags stores what you used to write the page, i.e., text editor, frontpage, dreamweaver...
<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="x.0">
This is used to refesh the page every x seconds. You can also use this tag to redirect the page to a different URL, to do this use content="x.0; url=http://www.newaddress.com". Try to avoid using this, check out "Get better ranking from the top search engines" to see why.
<META name="Robots" content="NOINDEX">
Use this tag if you want your page ignored by search engines, this can be useful if you don't want visitors while you are constructing your site or doing maintance.
<META name="Copyright" content="copyright info">
This one's obvious.
<META name="Pragma" content="no-cache">
Use this if you want your page freshly loaded every time it is viewed (instead of getting loaded from the browsers cache). I think this only works with Internet Explorer.
Well, that's about it for now. I'll be adding more soon, so feel free to bookmark this page and come back some other time.
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