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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Meta tags in SEO  

Meta tags are also the tags which are important in Search Engine Optimization. Meta tags provide the information about the Web Pages for the search engines. Meta tags are generally used to detail the web page description, keywords and other data which are not specified in the head part of the page.

Meta tags consist of:
Meta Description
Meta Keywords

With the help of Meta tags search engines will find out what the website is about and whether it is relevant to the search term given by the visitors.

Meta Description:It is necessary to write the good description Meta tags for the websites. We should use the top keywords in each and every page of the website. Each page should have a unique description.A maximum of 250 characters is suggested for this Tag.

example of a meta-description tag:

< name="description" content="Description goes here.">


Meta Keywords:Keyword Meta tags is also the important tags in SEO. Keywords should be specific in the web pages. We should avoid repeating the same word in the keywords Meta tags. Repeating the same keyword may cause spamming called “keyword stuffing”.A maximum of 15-20 is suggested for this Tag.

example of a meta-keyword tag:

< name="keywords" content="keyword1, keyword2…..">


There are also other Meta tags but these two are the important in SEO.These Meta tags help in placing our website to be in Google Top 10 ranking.

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