The Myths & Truths of Meta Tags [part-1]…

Over the years Meta tags have become quite misunderstood and usually used incorrectly on the Internet. With the help of this document a brief explanation of Meta tags will be given, a complete break down of all the Meta tags that we are aware of, and recommendations of which ones you should or shouldn't use for your website.

What are Meta tags? This question gets asked to us all the time. Meta tags are a snippet of informational code that has been located between your tags that are apart of your HTML document you've generated.

There are two known styles/attributes that you'll see for Meta tags. These happen to be ::

Back in the mid 90s Meta tags were developed to assist in the rapid growth of web pages, but soon after in the late 90s something major happened. Many Webmasters, generally those that ran adult orientated websites, abused the use of Keyword Meta tags. Many unrelated keywords were placed on their site in the Meta tag section, causing their pornographic sites to begin appearing in search results not related to topics such as "Smithsonian".

Eventually the major search engines began discontinuing the use of Meta tags for main criteria when listing sites. Google always refused the use of Meta tags, and now currently only will index Google Meta Tags. There are several searches that do read Meta tags in their own way.

The following list of links will take you to information about each of the individual Meta tags that we offer information on ::

Recommended Tags::

• Meta Content Language (non-US English ONLY)
• Meta Content Type
• Meta Description
• Meta Language (non-US English ONLY)

  Optional Tags::

  • Meta Abstract
  • Meta Author
  • Meta Copyright
  • Meta Designer
  • Meta Google
  • Meta Keywords
  • Meta MSN (No ODP)
  • Meta Title

  Not Recommended Tags::

  • Part-1
    • Meta Content Script Type
    • Meta Content Style Type
    • Meta Distribution
    • Meta Expires
    • Meta Generator
    • Meta MS Smart Tags
    • Meta Pragma No-Cache
    • Meta Publisher
  • Part-2
    • Meta Rating
    • Meta Refresh
    • Meta Reply-To
    • Meta Resource Type
    • Meta Revisit After
    • Meta Robots
    • Meta Set Cookie
    • Meta Subject
    • Meta VW96.ObjectType

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