I don't know what is meta element in HTML and its usability. What is the purpose of name and content attributes, and how will this element affect my webpage?
I have seen it a couple of times and I tried to learn from a book, but I couldn't understand it.
<html>
<head>
<title>What is meta?</title>
<meta>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Meta is another word for self-referential, which means that meta(data) tags provide information about the HTML document (i.e. the webpage) itself.
w3schools has a good description on the HTML meta tag:
They won't be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable.
For example, common meta tag attributes are description (what is this document about?) and author (who does this belong to?) which are used for machines like search engines.
Beyond this, you can also set things like character encoding and the viewport which is commonly used for responsive web design, so you can probably guess that it can be widely useful for your webpage!
Good luck in your learning.
Other resources:
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/meta-tags-used-promote-accessibility-search-engine-opimization-74918.html
https://metatags.io
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/meta
It helps at bit with your site's seo and makes it easier for search engines to know more about your site. Some tags, however, can be viewed in the search engine (eg. description can be seen in Google under the link)
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Can anybody tell me that why we use meta tag in html
Meta tags helps your website getting found by search engines like Google, Bing etc.
When you use it the right way in combination with some landing page you can get found in the best way. Another method is the use of link-exchange. If you use the 3 methods it could get your websites way better indexed by google then if you only use the meta-tags.
If you want to know more about it, just search on google with keywords: landing page, indexed by google, meta-tags, link-exchange etc.
Meta tags describe your page. Search engines have famously used them to help index your pages. Its got nothing to do with asp.net but rather the HTML output that is produced. See here for more information. Be aware although that search engines rely less on them as they do now and incorporate other factors into their indexing.
Meta tags are used for many things. The most important use for meta tags would be probably for SEO purposes. The meta description is probably one of the most important parts of the meta tag because that is what shows up under the title on Search Engines such as Google or Yahoo. The following link will give you more information about SEO and how you can use the meta tag. https://blog.kissmetrics.com/website-source-code-seo/
The meta tag can also do many other things such as set the author, viewport and keywords of a web page. Here is a link that will tell you a lot more about what the meta tag is used for. https://www.w3schools.com/Tags/tag_meta.asp
I have a website, and I need to figure out a few things:
Where to put the meta tag?
How many meta tags do I need?
Can I put all the webpages in 1 meta tag or do I need multiple?
As for my website, there are over 1000 things you can do, so an example would be "John is looking for a poker player." On my website, if you go under board games and click cards, you could add a classify OR if you do a search, you can look for members who play poker/card games. This is one example of thousands of activities.
My question is: do I need to create 1 meta tag for keywords of poker, friend, activity to show up on an SEO, OR can I create 1 meta tag that will hold 1000+ keywords on 1000+ different topics?
My website was created in C#. I'm confused when I google meta tags on youtube and find them written out in notepad as an html.
You should not use Meta tag for keywords !
The Keywords Meta Tag
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the “keywords” meta tag was
a critical element for early search engines. Much like the dinosaurs,
this tag is a fossil from ancient search engine times.
The only search engine that looks at the keywords anymore is
Microsoft's Bing – and they use it to help detect spam. To avoid
hurting your site, your best option is to never add this tag.
Or, if that's too radical for you to stomach, at least make sure you
haven't stuffed 300 keywords in the hopes of higher search rankings.
It won't work. Sorry.
If you already have keyword meta tags on your website, but they aren't
spammy, there's no reason to spend the next week hurriedly taking them
out. It's OK to leave them for now – just take them out as you're
able, to reduce page weight and load times.
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Meta tags should be in <head>, css also in <head>, javascript if it possible at the end of the <body>.
You can check google web speed test
EDIT:
Here is meta description and title. If your website is written on C# this is probably located in Site.Master !
<head>
<title>Not a Meta Tag, but required anyway </title>
<meta name="description" content="Awesome Description Here">
</head>
1) Meta tags are always in <head> element of page.
2) It depends on what metadata you want to add to your page.
3) You will need 1 <meta> tag for each meta type. So 1 tag will be enough for your keywords.
You can find more about meta tag on W3Schools.
I've been told that adding a different meta title and description per page is strongly recommended.
What is the correct way to do this? Is there a recommended naming convention for the title? I assume there's a standard for this rather than whatever the developer decides is best.
At first I would recommend to sign in to the Google Webmaster Tools. There you sign in your website and get a lot of information and resources to improve the information structure of your website.
Here you have an article from Google about the topic: Meta tags that Google understands
About the meta name="description" element:
<meta name="description" content="A description of the page" />
This tag provides a short description of the page. In some situations this description is used as a part of the snippet shown in the search results.
About the title element:
<title>The Title of the Page</title>
While technically not a meta tag, this tag is often used together with the "description". The contents of this tag are generally shown as the title in search results (and of course in the user's browser).
Also think about implementing structured data, see schema.org.
I think it is important these days to have a web standards based, clean and semantically rich HTML markup for your whole page.
title
(Note that the title element is not a "meta title".)
HTML5 defines that the title element should identify documents "even when they are used out of context". So for a typical website, you should always include the site name in the title.
For usability reasons, it’s most of the time a good idea to specify the page name before the site name (e.g., page name – site name).
HTML5 doesn’t recommend a delimiter for separating the page name from the title.
meta-description
HTML5 defines that the description metadata name is used to "describe the page". The value must be "appropriate for use in a directory of pages, e.g. in a search engine".
As the homepage typically represents the whole site, it’s appropriate to describe the site (instead of the page) in the homepage’s meta-description.
What is the difference between meta tag content and the title ?
I know title will be displayed in the title bar and the meta tag will not be displayed and its for w3 stadards we are just adding it in our html code ...but why we should do that ? what are the uses of it ? I wish to know detailed and clear explanation about it ...anyone please clear me up
What is the difference between
<title>Title of the website</title>
AND
<meta name="keywords" content="This website is for online shopping" />
The <meta name="keywords" ...> element has been deprecated (it was never appropriate for what the <meta> tag was designed for anyway). From Wikipedia's article on Meta element:
Search engines began dropping support for metadata provided by the meta element in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered completely away from reliance on meta elements. In July 2002, AltaVista, one of the last major search engines to still offer support, finally stopped considering them.[2]
Meta elements in HTML can be used for a myriad of things, including linking to other files, like stylesheets or scripts, providing additional information about the content of the page, providing additional instructions to the browser, and much, much more.
A good place to start would be the Wikipedia entry on meta elements and branch out from the links and sources provided there.
Can anybody tell me that why we use meta tag in html
Meta tags helps your website getting found by search engines like Google, Bing etc.
When you use it the right way in combination with some landing page you can get found in the best way. Another method is the use of link-exchange. If you use the 3 methods it could get your websites way better indexed by google then if you only use the meta-tags.
If you want to know more about it, just search on google with keywords: landing page, indexed by google, meta-tags, link-exchange etc.
Meta tags describe your page. Search engines have famously used them to help index your pages. Its got nothing to do with asp.net but rather the HTML output that is produced. See here for more information. Be aware although that search engines rely less on them as they do now and incorporate other factors into their indexing.
Meta tags are used for many things. The most important use for meta tags would be probably for SEO purposes. The meta description is probably one of the most important parts of the meta tag because that is what shows up under the title on Search Engines such as Google or Yahoo. The following link will give you more information about SEO and how you can use the meta tag. https://blog.kissmetrics.com/website-source-code-seo/
The meta tag can also do many other things such as set the author, viewport and keywords of a web page. Here is a link that will tell you a lot more about what the meta tag is used for. https://www.w3schools.com/Tags/tag_meta.asp