| Tags within
a HTML document that help define the contents of a web page. Meta
tags help allow Internet search engines display web pages more appropriately. Because
the abuse of incorrectly describing a web page through meta tags, many
search engines are no longer utilizing meta tags. Below is an example
of some commonly used meta tags and their description.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
Used for browsers to identify the type of web page being displayed
and how to display it. This tag indicates that the page is to be
displayed as text and/or HTML using the Microsoft
Windows character set.
<meta http-equiv="Computer Hope" content="no-cache">
Used to tell the browser being used to not cache the page. This
allows for the most latest information to be used on the browser. It
is only recommended that this tag be used on a page that is frequently
updated as it will be a slow download each time it is visited
<meta name="audience" content="all">
Used to for parental control to let software and robots know that
all ages of viewers can visit the page.
<meta name="author" content="www.computerhope.com">
Description of the author of the page.
<meta name="Content-Language" content="english">
Language the page is written in, in this case English.
<meta name="description" content="Helping you with ALL your computer
questions">
Description of the page for search engines to display. It is
highly recommended that all pages contain this.
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
Type of software used to generate the web page.
<meta name="keywords" content="computer, technical, free, help,
support">
Keywords used by a search engine to locate your web page, when a
user is searching the Internet. Again, it is highly recommended that
all pages contain this.
<meta name="page-topic" content="Free Computer help">
Topic of the page, used by some search engines. Not all pages need
this.
<meta name="page-type" content="Technical Support">
Type of page, used by some search engines. Not all pages need
this.
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
Type of program used to edit the file. Similar to the generator.
<meta name="publisher" content="www.computerhope.com">
Publisher of the web page.
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">
Notice to web robots indexing the page when to revisit next.
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="Index, ALL">
Notice to web robots what pages to index. It is still recommended
that the robots.txt file be used.
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="Index, FOLLOW">
Notice to web robots what action to take on the page, in this case
follow all links.
See our HTML
help page for additional information about meta tags as well as
other HTML tags.
See our Internet
promotion page for additional information about meta tags and
information to help improve your search engine results.
Also see: HTML, Robots.txt,
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