Blog SEO- Meta Tags

Tuesday, June 9, 2009



Blog SEO- Meta Tags
Meta Tags::
Meta data is information about data. The meta tag provides meta data about the HTML document. Meta data will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable. Meta elements are typically used to specify page Description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other meta data. The meta tag always goes inside the head element. The metadata can be used by browsers , search engines, or other web services.


This meta tag is usually placed beneath the title and meta description tags in the <Head></Head> section of your pages' HTML code, like this:
<Head>
<Title>your descriptive keywords of title goes here</Title>
<Meta Name="Description" Content="Your keyword rich marketing sales-pitch meta description goes here">
<Meta Name="Keywords" Content="your keywords,go here,separated by a comma,but not a space">
</Head>

Below are the some Examples of meta tags:
1. Keyword Meta tag - <meta name="keywords" content="SEO, Blog SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Meta tags, keywords, high traffic">

2. Description Meta Tags- <meta name="Description " content="A short but specific blurb about what the page is about.">

3. Author Copyright Meta tag: - <meta name="author" content="Ross Shannon">
<meta name="copyright" content="Ross Shannon 2004">

4.Robots meta tag- <meta name="robots" content="all">
This is the important meta tag where we can choose the search engine robot to crawl in our blog. "All" indicates allowing all search engines while "google bot" for google, "msnbot" for MSN search engine so on.

Important Meta tags: Every blog or site must have some meta tags for Keywords, description, title, re visit of search engine Crawler,robots, googlebots.

Here are some other to follow:
Revisit meta tag <Meta Name="Revisit-After" Content="30 days">
give "1 day", if you want crawler to visit every day and site is updated every day.
Index meta tag <Meta Name="Robots" Content="Noindex,Follow">
Title Meta tag : <Meta Name="Title" Content="Page Title Here">

Meta Google

The Meta Google tag has several options that are exclusive for use with Google. These include:

1. Googlebot: noarchive - does not allow Google to display cached content
2. Googlebot: nosnippet - does not allow Google to display excerpt or cached content
3. Googlebot: noindex - similar to the robots meta element
4. Googlebot: nofollow - do not allow Google to pass any PageRank or link popularity to the link served.

Recommendations for the Meta Google tags: The Meta Google tags are optional to use. You generally do not need to use Meta Google tags unless you want Google to do something specific with your site. The Meta Google tag is one of the few Meta tags Google will read, index, and obey.

Googlebot: noarchive

This tag will not allow Google to display any cached content. To place the googlebot: noarchive into your web page use the following:
<meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive">

Googlebot: nosnippet

This tag will not allow Google to display excerpt text in the SERPs or cached content. To place the googlebot: nosnippet into your web page use the following:
<meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet">

Googlebot: noindex

This tag is similar to the robots Meta element that denies indexing of your web page. To use the googlebot: noindex on your web page use the following:
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex">

Googlebot: nofollow

With the use of this tag it will instruct Google not to pass any PageRank or link popularity to the link served, however, Googlebot may follow the web page link and index the page referenced. To use the googlebot: nofollow tag on your web page use the following:
<meta name="googlebot" content="nofollow">

Over all i end this simple and important topic with one recommendation that all the tips & tricks of meta tags works well with the good content and attractive topics only.

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