What are Meta Tags?
If you are a newbies to HTML or making websites for Adsense, it is normal that you may not know what a meta tag is. Even if you are an intermediate Web pager you may not understand fully what they are, what they mean, and what they can do for you. Therefore, I would like to write a short post in response to that.
In short, Meta Tags help search engines to index your site in a better way and hence visitors are more likely to find you and increase the traffic of your site. If you don't have meta tags in your Web pages then a lot of search engines will not even see your Web site and no one will come. They are one of the most essential parts of your webpage, if you want more people to come to it. Therefore, it is a very field in doing SEO to improve the ranking of your site.
Here is an example of what a normal meta tags should look like. Bear in mind that it should be inside the HEAD section.
Of course you may want to use more keywords than just 3 but you get the idea.
There are many things you should think about when coming up with your keywords. Ask yourself "if I was at a search engine and looking for a Web page on this topic what would I type into it to find this page". You may also want to use keywords that show up somewhere on the page at least once. Some search engines will also look at some of the words on the page itself and if they see the same word in the body of the page and in the keywords then your placement in the search results will be higher. One thing you should never do is type the same word twice in your keywords. Some search engines will get confused and not look any further to see the rest of your keywords and your page could get missed.
One trick that sometimes works is by using misspelled words in your keywords. For instance, if someone was looking for your sewing site do you think that they may type into the search engine "seuing" by accident. If this is something you have done or if it seems to be a common way of misspelling the word then you may want to add it to your keywords. This way if someone does misspell the word into the search engine you could be on the top of their search results. On the other hand, some search engines will penalize you for using a word in your meta keywords that you don't use on your page so use misspellings with caution.
Another important part of meta tags is not really a meta tag but is still very important to your search engine placement. It's the title tag and it's one of your basic HTML tags. It makes words show up on the top of the browser but it also tells people what your site is about. In your title tag you should use a short phrase that describes your page and uses keywords. You should not use puncuation except for a dash in your title tag.
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posted by Joe Li @ 12:46 PM
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How can we put meta tags in blogger.plz. describe it.
Thank you.
I have already put a back link to yours.
Hi Francis,
Thanks for your question. You need to first open the template of your blog in your blogger account. Then, you can follow the ways I mentioned above, and put the tags immediately after the title.
If you are using new blogger, you can access the HTML by clicking "Edit HTML".
Thanks for your backlink by the way.
hello again!
thanks! for your tips. I have done it. but I could put only one meta tags for all posting. I want to put different meta tags for each post. is any idea for this.
Hi Francis,
Nice to meet you again, and glad that you can add it successfully. However, since you add it to the template, and that's why all the pages of your blog will have such tags.
If you insist to have different tags for different pages, you need to amend them one by one. But that would be very inconvenience, since once you publish the blog again, you lost all your effort.
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