Meta Tags

To Be or Not To Be

Meta Tags are placed in between the opening and closing of the "HEAD" tag. Meta tags have never been a guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on search engines. As a matter of fact some claim Meta tags are dead but I say if you personally find it or believe it to be useful, keep doing so. These tags are invisable on your site. They are only seen by the crawlers.

The META description and keyword TAGS are used to enable search engines to properly index your website. It is VERY important to use the best possible description of your site and include keywords within your description. In addition, to achieve a higher ranking in the search engines, try to use keyword phrases instead of single keywords and focus your keyword phrases on just a few specific topics that best describe your website. Utilize your TITLE and ALT tags along with the TEXT of your webpage to include your keyword phrases in readable sentences. By combining all of these optimization methods, you will increase your ranking in the search engines immensely.

< META HTTP-EQUIV ="Refresh" CONTENT =" 4;URL=http://www.yourdomain.com " >

The META refresh tag is used to automatically redirect your visitor to another web address. This tag is generally used when a website moves and needs to have traffic redirected to the new location.

META http-equiv=" Pragma " content="no-cache">

The META no-cache tag is used to prevent the users browser from storing a Web page in their cache file. The cache file stores webpages for quicker loading the next time the user visits the website. If you make changes to your Web page and you choose not to use the no-cache tag, the user would not see your changes, but the original page that would be loaded from the cache file.

META name="rating" content="General">

The META rating tag is used to enable you to rate your website with the search engines. A general rating means that your Web page contains no adult content and is safe for all ages.

< META name="ROBOTS" content="ALL” >

The META robots content all tag is used to direct the search engines to index all of your Web page content.

< META NAME="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,FOLLOW" >

The META robots no index tag is used to tell the search engines not to index a webpage.