Metadata is information about the page/site data.
The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be parse-able by your browser and search engines.
Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata as generated by our meta tag generator. Some browsers, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, support Meta Transitions. A meta transition is an effect you can use for fancy page transitions.
Meta Tag Placement
Meta tags must always be placed in the head of your HTML document, that is somewhere between the head tags:
- <head>
- META TAGS GO HERE!
- </head>
There are two possible attributes for meta tags:
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”name” CONTENT=”content”>
<META NAME=”name” CONTENT=”content”>
The most important meta tags and the ones you need most on your site may be generated by using our easy-to-use meta tag generator on our homepage.
The following list of links will take you to information about each of the individual Meta tags that we offer information on:
Recommended Tags
+Meta Content Language (non-US English ONLY)
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="PL" />
+Meta Content Type
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-2022-JP" />
+Meta Description
<meta name="description" content="The best site on meta tags on the web." />
+Meta Keywords
<meta name="keywords" content="metattags, generator, html, coding" />
Facebook Open Graph Meta Tags
Facebook now uses its own meta tags so that you can control how the links to your pages look when somebody “likes” it on Facebook. Be sure to use these to help your Facebook marketing and to help you build ‘buzz’. Find out how and even generate them by using our generator designed just for Open Graph Meta Tags.
Optional Meta Tags
+Meta Abstract
<metaname="Abstract" content="Short description of page" />
+Meta Author
<meta name="Author" content="John Smith, jsmith@xyzcorporation.com" />
+Meta Copyright
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright © 2010 Xyz Corp." />
+Meta Designer
<meta name="designer" content="Joe Schmoe, jschmoe@abc.com" />
+Meta Distribution
- Global (the entire web)
- Local (reserved for the local IP block of your site)
- IU (Internal Use, not for public distribution)
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
This tag IS NOT recommended. If you want to restrict distribution, use the robots.txt tag or your HTAccess file.
+Meta Google
- Googlebot: noarchive - does not allow Google to display cached content
- Googlebot: nosnippet - does not allow Google to display excerpted or cached content
- Googlebot: noindex - similar to the robots meta element
- Googlebot: nofollow - do not allow Google to pass any PageRank or link popularity to the link served.
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet" />
+Meta MSN (No ODP)
<meta Name="msnbot" content="NOODP" />
+Meta Title
<title>Your Page Title Goes Here</title>
The Meta Title Tag would look like this:
<meta Name="title" content="Your page title" />
+Meta Transitions
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=2.0)" />
>>>More Meta Transition Tags...
Not Recommended Meta Tags
+Meta Content Script Type
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />
+Meta Content Style Type
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
+Meta Distribution
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
+Meta Email
<meta name="email" content="your.email@address.com" />
+Meta Expires
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:00:00 GMT" />
+Meta Generator
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.9.2" /> <!- - leave this for stats - ->
+Meta MS Smart Tags
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" CONTENT="TRUE" />
+Meta Persistence
<meta name="save" content="history" />
+Meta Pragma No-Cache
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache" />
+Meta Publisher
<META NAME="Publisher" CONTENT="FrontPage 4.0" />
+Meta Rating
<meta name="Rating" content="General" />
+Meta Refresh
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3;URL=http://www.domain.com/page.html" />
+Meta Reply-To
<meta name="reply-to" content="your.email@address.com" />
+Meta Resource Type
<META name="resource-type" content="document" />
+Meta Revisit After
<META NAME="Revisit-After" CONTENT="30 days Days" />
+Meta Robots
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW" />
+Meta Set Cookie
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="cookievalue=xxx;expires=Wednesday, 21-Oct-98 16:14:21 GMT; path=/" />
+Meta Subject
<META NAME="Subject" CONTENT="Your Web Page Subject" />