Tuesday, August 14, 2012

What are Meta Tags


What are Meta Tags

We all want to be on TOP, specially when it comes to our business. We'll try and we want the highest ranking for our webpages. After all we want our web pages to POP up every time when the word GOOGLE shows up. Well, that might be a little difficult. I did say difficult, not impossible. As a web designer, and my follow web designers, or potential customers looking for web page. My Blog is here to help you understand basic understanding of what you're suppose to ask for, when creating your web page. What items you're suppose to look at. 
In this blog I'll discuss the value of Meta Tags. What Meta Tags are, and how they will benefit your website. 
Now that you've got your working website up. Its running finally you've got more than your mother, uncle, auntie, and most of all your girlfriend/wife is looking at it. Your website up, and but wait the traffic isn't what it should be. 

You've run the numbers of hits, and it shows 10 and if you remove all the time you've been on it, now the number shows 3. Great!! I can help, maybe, well I'll try anyway. 
Before I jump into Meta Tags, make sure you're using the right words for descriptions Just add meta tags and your website will magically rise to the top, right? Keep in mind there are rooms full of computes running algorithms.  

While there is still some debate about which meta tags remain useful and important to search engines, meta tags definitely aren't a magic solution to gaining rankings in Google, Bing, Yahoo, or elsewhere – so let's kill that myth right from the start. However, meta tags help tell search engines and users what your site is about, and when meta tags are implemented incorrectly, the negative impact can be substantial and heartbreaking.

The following are some examples of what Meta tags are and what they'r impact can be:
What Are Meta Tags?
HTML meta tags are officially page data tags that lie between the open and closing head tags in the HTML code of a document. The text in these tags isn't displayed, but is parable and tells the browsers (or other web services) specific information about the page. Simply, it “explains” the page so a browser can understand it.
Here's a code example of meta tags:
<head>
<title>Not a Meta Tag, but required anyway</title>
<meta name="description" content="Awesome Description Here">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
</head>
The Title Tag
Although the title tag appears in the head block of the page, it isn't actually a meta tag. 

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