Meta Tags
Search engines index web sites like (example) fashionfurpaws.com based at least partially on the Title,
and Meta-Tag information found in the head of the document.
If you do not have properly formatted META information, your site will suffer very lower placement in the
search engines, or not be listed at all!
C.S.I can help you with choosing correct meta tags or create meta tags for your website. Once your meta
tags are in place this will help with getting your website picked up by a web crawler which will better your
websites chances of being ranked.
The META tag belongs in the header of an HTML document. Its primary use is to provide information that is not seen
directly in the web page. The tag itself is very simple. It contains two parts, a name for a piece of information, and the
information itself. The general format of a META tag is as follows:
<META NAME = "type of information" CONTENT = "information itself">
It should be put inside <head> and </head>
Providing indexing information
The META tag is used to provide information to search engines like Web Crawler and to make a page automatically
reload.
The search engine looks for words in the headings, titles, etc. of a web page, and uses them as keywords. It then uses
the first few lines of text from the page as the description.
<html>
<head>
<META NAME = "keywords" CONTENT = "HTML tutorial, learn HTML">
<META NAME = "description" CONTENT = "Introduction to HTML">
<title>Guide to Learning HTML</title>
</head>
</html>
Sending the browser to a new URL
A META may be used to send the browser to a new URL. You may have visited a web site that has moved, where the
old web site sends you to the new location after a short wait. This is done by providing what is called an HTTP-EQUIV,
instead of a NAME.
<html>
</head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "REFRESH" CONTENT = "10; URL=meta.htm#Refresh">
<title>Reload</title>
</head>
<body>
This page will send you back after 10 seconds.If it doesn't, use <a href="meta.htm">this link</A>.
</body>
</html>