13/09/2014

What is Meta Tags and How to Add Meta tags to Blogger, List of useful Meta Tags

Meta tags are mostly used in HTML documents to provide metadata about your website or webpage.Metadata is only  decipherable by machine.Meta tags are used to provide details about your website like description, keyword, author, robot, etc.Search engines can access your website details using this meta tags.Generally, meta tags are added in the head section.

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Meta tags are very important for your website and it is required for search engine optimization. All the search engines have their own crawlers and then index your website in search results. but, the question is how search engines identify your website and other information about your website like author, description and location.

Meta tags are necessary for the blogs. Wordpress and Blogger are most popular blogging platform. If you are using Wordpress, then you don't need to think about it because it automatically manage all the meta tags. Blogger is not optimized as WordPress, you must implement perfect meta tags in your template code. There are many meta tag generator tools are available on the internet. Just Google it.

Here is the complete list of meta tags for your blog:
  1. <meta content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1' name='viewport'/>
  2. <meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>
  3. <meta content='description here' name='description'/>
  4. <meta content='keywords here' name='keywords'/>
  5. <meta content='author name' name='author'/>
  6. <meta content='email id here' name='Email'/>
  7. <meta content='English' name='language'/>
  8. <meta content='all' name='robots'/>
Replace your blog description, keywords, author, and email id in above meta tags.Just paste these meta tags after <head> tag.

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