Inserting Meta Tags
Meta tags are used for defining web pages and giving information about them to the search engines. If a web page has meta tags, search engines can get information and categorize it more easily. So, when somebody search a keyword related with it, search engines can add it to search results. Now, I will generate and add some meta tags for this page.
Title Tag
<title>Generate Meta Tags</title>
Title meta tag defines web page's title. Try to select the most important keywords as a page title and do not use more than 80 letters. Title tag writes page title to the top of the browser and when a web page get listed in search engine results, page title is determined according to title tag.
Description Tag
<meta name="description" content="Gives basic information about meta tags and includes a tutorial that expalins how to generate and add meta tags on a web page.">
Description meta tag includes short information about web pages. Page descriptions at search results are generated accordig to this tag. So, try to expalain the web page as clear as possible and pay attention not to write description longer than 200 letters. In order to obtain harmony between meta tags, use same keywords that you used in title tag.
Keywords Tag
<meta name= "keywords" content="meta, meta tag, meta tags, generate meta tag">
Keyword meta tag is used to determining keywords related with web pages. Determine keywords according to your web pages content and write them to keyword tag. Serve keywords with commas and do not use more than 20 words. Be sure you used keywords in your articles. Do not write any words to keyword meta tag which you did not used in web pages.
Robots Tag
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
Robots tag guides search engine spiders. If a web page contains robots tag and index,follow command, spiders will read and index that web page and if they find any link to another web pages, they will follow that links and index them.
Meta Tag Generator Tool
You can use Meta Tag Generator Tool to generate meta tags more easily. Click here and fill in the blanks according web page which you are generating meta tags for.
Adding Meta Tags to Web Pages
You can see the structure of html pages from the picture below. As you see html tags covers all of the page codes while head tags cover information about web page. We will add meta tags between <head>....</head> tags.
Click on Code button from the Document Toolbar and paste meta tags between head tags.
