Meta Tags, Why do we need them?
Meta Tags why do you need them?
When a search engine spiders-searches for sites to show from a
search request, they get there information from Meta Tags. Below is and example
of the
meta tags for this page. You can see these in the code by right clicking
this page, choosing view source.
<head>
<title>Lesson 12 Meta Tags</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="Meta Tags, why do we need them, keywords,
content, copyright,rating, robots, description">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright © 2003, Colors by Trixie">
<meta name="rating" content="General">
<meta name="robots" content="Index, all">
<meta name="description" content="What are meta tags? why do
we need them, find the answer her">
This tells the search engine what the page is about, the
language it's in, what age group the content is suitable etc. If you add these tags to your page this helps the search engines
pick up your site and a viewer to find what they are looking for. As you
can see above the meta tags are added under the head section of your code.
End of this Lesson
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