What are meta tags?

Question

Can anyone tell me what meta tags are and how to insert them into my website.

Answer 1

The element provides meta-information about your page, such as descriptions and keywords for search engines and refresh rates.
if you goto http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp
this will explain in good detail how to use meta tags.

Answer 2

The two most common uses of meta elements on the Web are to provide a description and to provide meta keywords for a web page. This data may then be used by search engines (such as Google or Yahoo!) to generate and display a list of search results matching a given query.

In your HTML file Meta Tags sit inside the "Head" tag. So your HTML file will be structured something like...



<-- things like your page title and meta tags go here -->


<-- your main website code sits here -->


You can read up on Meta Tags by simply googling the two word in speech marks, ie "meta tags", or you can visit http://www.w3c.org to really get into the nitty gritty.

However, the easiest way to do it if you really do know nothing about web building and just want to get it done and over with, is to go here:

http://www.metataggenerator.eu/meta-tag-generator/index.php

Fill in the boxes and click "create meta tags". This will then generate some code that you can copy and paste into your HTML code (following the structure I wrote out above)

To edit your HTML page, ideally edit it in Dreamweaver or another WYSIWYG editor of similar reputation, OR simply right hand click on the file and select "open with..." and then either "Wordpad" or "Textpad" whichever is available. Copy and paste the generated code and you're done.

Hope that helps

Answer 3

you probably are just interested in the ones that the search engines look for,,,



you put them in each html file, within the tag.

Answer 4

in short. Meta tags are just identification tags for e.g. search bots -so that they can pick up the relevant info to that search + keyword or who was the author of the webpage etc.

Answer 5

are yoiu using a wysiwyg html editor where you drag stuff on the page and it writes the source code for you or are you using a normal html editor where you can write the code yourself? what is the name of it? we can't help you without this info.

Answer 6

complicated stuff. seek at yahoo or google. just that may help!