Onpage Optimization - Meta Tags

Head tags how important in onpage optimization : seo

You might have heard the importance of meta tags in seo especially when it comes to onpage optimization. So let’s see in detail what its all about.

Meta tag :
• A meta tag is a hidden tag of head tag which gives more information of a particular HTML document.
• It provides valuable information about the html document in numbers or value pairs.
• Meta tag donot have closing tags.


The three main attributes of meta tag are :

Content:
The information can be any valid strings which will be enclosed in quotes.
It provides the information in name/value pair.

Name:
It’s the most useful and customizable tag. Here is the main part of our seo tricks works on as we define all our keywords, descriptions, author, robots tags.

Syntax:{meta name=”[the tag name of name]” content=”[content of the tag]”>

For example consider the site www.prosems.com is a web development company the meta tag for name attribute can be written like this.

{meta name="description" content="Professional web development company providing custom application development and ecommerce web site development services."}

http-equiv:
It is usually used by the server to include the name / value pair in MIME document header passed to the web browser before sending the actual HTML document.
Its an attribute name for the name/value pair.

Syntax: {meta http-equiv =”name” content=”description of the content”}

Example: www.prosems.com
The http-equiv tag can be written as :{meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"}

Well it’s was little story about Meta tags. So lets stop being html students and now lets be back as SEO Executives, and concentrate only on meta tag name.

Few tips for wrting name tags
• Unique meta descriptions on each page of your site depending on the functionality of each page
• Show facts about the content on the page that are not represented in the title
• Make the description easy to read and of length 150 – 200 charecters.
• Dynamic sites can dynamically generate descriptive meta descriptions easily
• Make sure your descriptions are quality and represent the content on the page


Software that helps us:

Just enter your keywords, title, and description

http://tools.seobook.com/meta-medic/

http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/meta-tag-generator/

http://www.submitcorner.com/cgi-bin/tools/metagen.cgi

Well i will looking out for your comments. By the time you check in all these tools, let me draft another post.
And dont forget to share your ideas, tricks on SEO