hello!!
how are you all?
I heard about search engines that use the meta tags in web pages...
can anyone please explain to me more about the subject? does all webpages
have meta tags to search from?
thanks
:wave:
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hello!!
how are you all?
I heard about search engines that use the meta tags in web pages...
can anyone please explain to me more about the subject? does all webpages
have meta tags to search from?
thanks
:wave:
Metatag's are html in the <head> of a web page. You can put keywords in there which search engines can use. I don't think you Have to put meta tags in, but most people do.
Metatags are a way to let search engines know what a HTML page is about.
Imagine you have a site about.......Visual Basic!
you could use :
this to let search engines know what your site is about(metatags off this site)Code:<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<!-- end no cache headers -->
<title>VBForums.com - Visual Basic and VB .NET Discussions and More!</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.0.7" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Visual Basic,.NET,programming,C#,CSharp,Microsoft,discussion,bulletin board" />
<meta name="description" content="Visual Basic Discussions plus .NET, C#, game programming, and more (http://www.VBForums.com)" />
A search engine uses these tags to index your site.
if you want to get your site a high rating you could use similar tags to boost your place
Example:
<meta name="keywords" content="Visual Basic,Vb,Basic,Visual B, VB,vb,VB.NET,vb.net/>
this will enhance yoour place on VB but you will not be found on Forum (obvcious) on google, Ilse, Hotbot and many many others
A note about that though. metatags are no longer the way a good search engine works. It may take them into consideration, but alot of other factors go into providing relevant results. Before Google came in and turned things around and most searches were pretty much based on metatags, it was not uncommon that your first search hit was a porn site or other bogus site no mater how 'clean' your search terms were because these sites would load thier metatags with common search words.