What Is Metatag and how it should be

Last time We discussed about the Factors involved in Onsite optimization,Lets Go deeper in to the factors While performing onsite optimization the major consideration is Metatag generation for your website and its individual Pages

seo_meta_tag

What is this Metatag?

  • Metatag will not be displayed on your webpage but will be machine parsable.
  • The <meta> tag always goes inside the head element.
  • Metatag contains Your website title ,keywords,description of your web site more than that it can hold verification code, company name ,Author of the website ,Location and More
  • By applying this tag, your site becomes meaningful for both viewers and search engines.

It is very important to be considered because every valuable journey must have a good beginning,Likewise every valuable content must have a good title because your title going to invoke visitors ,Title is going to communicate with your visitors or customers so be practical while building the title

Sample meta :Meta Of Cogzidel

<title>Web Design & Development Company |Consulting  Services in India |SEO & SEM – Cogzidel.com</title>

<meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow” />

<meta content=”Web design Company ,web development company ,offshore staffing,hiring developers” />

<meta content=”Cozidel Technolgies in india provides web design ,web development ,offshore staffing ,hiring developers, Search engine optimization and online Marketing services .It has good reputation in web development industry” />

The Title Explains ,Who we are and our services

The Description explains, Where we are from and what we do and what is the page about

Keywords,Specify the keywords that relate to the page don’t provide unrelated keywords

We have seen the sample of a meta tag ,Don’t think it as a constant one , it changes for appropriate pages and website content

Meta Title:

  • Meta title tag should contain 65 characters and the combination of primary keyword and secondary keywords.
  • In title don’t be descriptive so don’t use “a”, “and”, “or” and “that” words
  • Don’t repeat the same keyword twice in the meta title tag.
  • At time of writing the Meta title tag use starting letter be caps.

Major Syntax:

<TITLE>Combination of Primary Keywords – Secondary Keywords.</TITLE>

Meta Description

Meta Description Tag should contain Max of 25 keywords length or approx 150 characters. Meta Description Tag should be the combination of primary keywords and secondary keywords / multiple keywords

Major Syntax:

<meta name=”description” content=” combination of primary keywords and secondary keywords / multiple keywords”/>

Meta keywords

Meta keywords are two types, primary keywords and secondary keywords. Primary Keywords means related to header of the content and secondary keywords means related keywords to the primary keyword

Major Syntax:

<meta name=”keywords” content=” primary keywords and secondary keywords / related primary keywords”/>

Why these meta Tags are used

While search engine crawls on your website it looks for these meta tags and it indexes what these meta tag contains

See this sample pic you will have a better idea

metatag

Some of the famous meta tag generators for your website ,In these sites just you have to input the data required by them they will generate the code for you

http://www.submitexpress.com/metatags.html

http://www.addme.com/meta.htm

I have included the basic details for preparing the meta  tags if you have further doubts please comment me

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