Optimizing Your Web Page

Meta tags are not a magic solution. Meta tags are HTML codes that are
inserted into the header on a web page, after the title tag. Meta tags are
contained in the HEAD section near the top of the page. Meta tags are HTML
tags that help you control how some search engines may index your site, by
using the keywords and descriptions you provide. A good question to ask is
if meta tags are still necessary. Meta tags are useful in getting better
listings in the search engines. The title, keyword and description meta tags
are standard HTML tags and should be placed within the HEAD section of a Web
page.

Some believe that HTML meta tags will bring you to the top of the search
engine rankings. Many vendors of software that generates HTML will make use
of their own custom Meta Tags to identify different pieces of information
about the document.
You can define your own search fields with HTML meta tags.
While many search engines are placing more and more emphasis on the keywords
used on your actual HTML page, some are still looking at your meta tags.

Everyone knows that to obtain high search engine rankings all you have to do
is put the keywords that you want to rank high with into your meta tags,
right. You know that keywords should go into your HTML title and meta tags,
but did you know that you also need to place them in heading tags. The
description meta tag explains your site's content and data, giving the
search engines' robots and spiders a brief summary of your site. Use the
keywords in the META tags in your ALT image description for a boost in some
search engines. Being specific and accurate are the ingredients to success
with keywords. At the present time, most search services extract keywords
from the page text, but some services may use the keywords meta tag.
It's important not to repeat words in the description or keywords meta tags;
Meta is not the only way to have your site seen by search engines. Keywords
may be separated by a space or a comma or a comma followed by a space.
Never, repeat the same word over and over in any single one of those places.

The meta description tag describes your site's content, giving search
engines' spiders an accurate summary filled with multiple keywords. In
search engine listings you see a title and a short description. Titles and
Description tags are the most important meta-tags that search engines
consider to determine relevancy. Try to always include your keywords within
the description tags, if you can put the keywords near the beginning of the
meta tag. We recommend keeping your description tag to 170 characters or
less. Some services obtain descriptions from the text of the page, while
other services use descriptions given in description meta tags. Just a few
years ago, good META description and keyword tags were a ticket to success
for many sites and many spammers. The Keyword and Description Meta Tags are
the two principle META tags that search engines look for when indexing your
website. The keyword, title, description tags, have been abused by many seo
gurus, because of this many search engines do not pay attention to the meta
tags.

Meta tags are used to provide structured data about data, similar in many
ways to the information provided in traditional library catalogue records.
Meta Tags are most commonly used to distinguish the keywords that are
relevant to a page's content.
The robots meta tags are used and respected by all major search engine
robots. META Tags are still important today.

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