» posted on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 at 5:17 am by admin
What are HTML Meta tags ?
Html Meta Tag Details
Meta tags allow the most valuable feature that offer the web site owner that is the ability to control to some degree how their web pages are described by some search engines. They also offer the ability to prevent pages from being indexed at all.
They are information inserted into the “head” area of your web pages. Other than the title tag (explained below), information in the head area of your web pages is not seen by those viewing your pages in browsers. Meta tags, for example, can tell a browser what “character set” to use or whether a web page has self-rated itself in terms of adult content.
Meta tags are html tags that are included in the <head> tag along with the <title> tag. A meta tag is formatted in the following way,
<meta type=”name” content=”value”>
example of Meta tag
Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes.
The meta element has four valid attributes: content, http-equiv, name and scheme. Of these, only content is a required attribute.
For example
<meta name=”description” content=”Free free script installation tutorails on HTML, CSS, XML, and XHTML” />
This meta element defines keywords for your page:
<meta name=”keywords” content=”HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, XHTML, JavaScript” />