Meta tags

Meta tags

Meta tags used to describe website's "Keywords", "Description" etc. Meta tags tell the brief description about the webpage or website.

Meta tags are used to place in the HEAD section of the HTML.

Example and Types of Meta Tag

(A) Keyword Meta Tag

Keyword meta tag describe the keywords of your website. The example of keyword meta tag is as follows:



(B) Description Meta Tag

It describe the description of the webpage. example of the description tag is as follows:



(C) Robots Meta Tag

It is very important because it control over the search engine spider. It tells the search engine spider whether to index a page or not.

Following are the example of Robots Meta Tag



It tells the search engine spider index the page and follow all the links on the page.



It tells the search engine spider that index the page but not to follow any link on the page.



It tell the search engine spider not to index the page but follow all the links on the page



It tells the search engine spider neither index the page nor follow the link on the page.

NOODP & NOYDIR

NOODP is the open directory project, It tells the serach engine spider not to follow the www.Dmoz.org (Open directory project)

NOYDIR is No Yahoo Directory, It tells the search engine spider not to follow Yahoo Directory.

The example is as follows:



For a particular search engine

For Google change the robots in to Googlebot
For MSN change the robots in to msnbot
For Yahoo change the robots in to Slurp