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Meta Tag Generator

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Meta tags help a search engine to determine what your site is about. Yahoo looks at your meta keywords tag, you can actually rank well in Yahoo for words that only appear in your 'meta keywords' tag. Google looks mainly at your title. By using an attractive & clear description you can attract more people to your site. The Robots tag is only useful if you don't want to index the page. Create meta tags for all your pages!

For more advanced options see the advanced meta tag generator

META Tags Resources

META (<meta>) tags provide additional information about a web page. Search engines use some of the tag information. Other tags can be used by web servers.

Placement of META tags

META tags should always be placed between the <head> tags, before the <body> tag.

META Description

A "must have" for all web pages. Used by many search engines for indexing. The "description" <meta> tag is also commonly displayed by search engines as the summary of the web page. The "description" should be related to the contents of that particular page, not the entire site. One or two sentences are enough. You should not duplicate the <title> of the page.

META Keywords

A "must have" for all web pages. Used by many search engines for indexing. The "keywords" should be related to the contents of that particular page, not the entire site. Think about using misspelled words too. Keywords may be separated by a space or a comma or a comma followed by a space.

META Content-Type

Specifies the character encoding for the page. This tag is required on each XHTML page so it will validate properly.

A variety of character encoding values are available. The one shown is common and appropriate for most websites.

META Author

META Copyright

META Refresh

Use META Refresh to automatically change to another web page after a specified number of seconds. In this example, http://www.1-hit.com/index.htm is the URL the page will display after 4 seconds have passed.

For accessibility reasons, using this tag is not recommended since it can confuse users of assistive technologies.

META Cache-Control

Use the following META tag to prevent the page from caching. Being cached means that the page is stored on the local computer. Some web servers (such as AOL's web servers) cache pages. Caching makes pages display faster for users. It is best to disable casheing using "no-cache" for pages that are updated frequently.

META Expires

This page expires on the date given, which means that the browser will use the cached version until the date is reached. Use a date in the past to expire content right away. Dates must be in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) time, not PST or EST, using the format shown below.

Use this META tag to expire the page immediately:

META Pragma

This is another way to control browser caching. To use this tag, the value must be "no-cache". When this is included in a document, it prevents Netscape Navigator from caching a page locally.

The META Cache-Control, META Expires and META Pragma tags can be used as together to keep your content current - but beware: There are reports that Internet Explorer refuses the META tag instructions, and caches the files anyway.

META Robots

A robot is a program used by search engines. It will visit a web page, index it, and then visit all the hyperlinks in that page, indexing them all. Search engines often send a robot to your site in order to add your site's pages to the search engine database.

You may not want certain pages on your site to appear in a search engine. These might be pages containing sensitive information, or those which should not be viewed outside of a frameset. You can use the META tag to provide instructions to robots visiting a page: You can tell them not to index the page, or not to follow any of the links on it, or both.

Here are examples of some of the META Robots tags you can use (use only one on a page):

The default action is to index the page and follow all links. It is not necessary to encode that META tag into your pages if that is the action you desire.

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