- What is a Meta Tag

- The Meta Tag is a snippet of HTML code that belongs inside the section of a Web page. It usually is placed after the Title tag and before the Meta keywords tag, although the order is not important.

- Tltle

-Build your titles around the top two or three phrases that you would like the page to be found for. The titles should be relatively short and attractive. Think of newspaper headlines. With a few words, they make you want to read a story. Similarly, your page titles are like headlines for your pages. They appear in search engine listings, and a short, attractive title may help make users click through to your site.

- Author

- The author META tag defines the name of the author of the document being read.

- Subject

- This defines what the site is all about. Example: Web Hosting Provider.

- Description

- Used by most search spiders (same exceptions as keywords, above). This is the description that you want seen in search results, and should include two occurances of your favored search terms, if possible. This should also be limited to 256 characters for best results, although some engines may only display the first 64 characters, so those first words are all-important.

- Keywords

- Keywords used by many search engines with the notable exception of popular portals like Excite, Google, Lycos and Northern Light. These keywords should be comma delimited (separated), and have your preferred "find me by" words and phrases (no more than 256 total characters for best results). Don't repeat single words over and over, but do repeat phrases and topics like "dogs and cats,puppies,adopt a new puppy,dogs,puppy adoptions,pets,kitty kats." There are conflicting opinions about whether a space after each comma is acceptable, but we have found it is best to eliminate them.

- Generator

- This would be the program that you used to build your site with. Example: Web Studio, Version 4.0 SP4 for Windows

- Language

- For this example, the language for your website such as "English" or "French." Advanced forms can take nested formats, which direct browsers to different pages for each language. Some extended formats include using the tag "content-language" and a standardized international 2-letter language format (ISO639) such as "en-US" for English, U.S. (for U.K., you might use "en-GB"). en - English ch - Chinese cs - Czech da - Danish de - German fr - French he - Hebrew ja - Japanese etc.

- Expires

- The expires META tag defines the expiration date and time of the document being indexed and requires RFC1123 date format, for example: Thu, 04 Oct 2010 14:21:20 GMT You may also use Never

- Abstract

- The abstract META tag is a one line sentence which gives an overview of the entire webpage.

- Copyright

- No need to add ©, it will be added automatically

- Designer

- The company or person that design the site. Example: AgriUSA Design

- Publisher

- Company that publishes material being read or sold on a web site

- Revisit-After

- The Revisit META tag defines how often a search engine or spider should come to your website for re-indexing. For example: 2 Days, 3 Days, 4 Days, etc. Note: Just ad number(s), word Days will be added automatically

- Distribution

- Global (indicates that your webpage is intended for mass distribution to everyone), Local (intended for local distribution of your document), and IU - Internal Use (not intended for public distribution).

- Robots

- Controls Web robots on a per page basic.

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