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
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Is it still advisable to use meta keywords in website design? Googling around seems to suggest that they have fallen out of favor with search engines.
The answer is yes and no. Using meta tags is a good idea just in case someone is using an older browser that still uses them sometimes but most browsers are up to date. The only really important tag now would be the description tag as you can have that description published for your website when you search on google, safari, etc..
Also i believe online citation generators frequently look at meta tags so on my sites with information I prefer to add an author tag and a date tag.
EDIT
I just realized you were specifically asking about the keywords tag. The keywords tag is no longer used by the common search engines like google, bing, and safari.
Google doesn't use meta keywords since 2009, and they declared there is not any reason to use them.
you can have a look here to find out the reason.
Q: Why doesn't Google use the keywords meta tag?
A: About a decade ago, search engines judged pages only on the content of web pages, not any so-called "off-page" factors such as the links pointing to a web page. In those days, keyword meta tags quickly became an area where someone could stuff often-irrelevant keywords without typical visitors ever seeing those keywords. Because the keywords meta tag was so often abused, many years ago Google began disregarding the keywords meta tag.
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
How many total <meta> tag available in X/HTML and Which should be used and which not?
see this tool http://www.ulhas.net/tools/tu-metagen
is there any pros to use all other meta tags other than meta description?
note: Google doesn't give any importance to meta keywords.
In terms of SEO, the description meta tag is what most search engines will usually show in search results, so that's quite important.
Google have said that they don't use the keywords tag at all. And the other searches engines value it very little, if at all.
The robots tag can be useful if you want to stop SEs indexing certain pages, but using robots.txt is the better option. Certainly, don't bother with "positive" instructions like INDEX, FOLLOW because that's what SEs do by default anyway.
The language and content type tags are best replaced with HTTP headers if you have that option. Same goes for caching, revisit-after etc but I'm not sure any browsers take note of that anyway.
Don't bother with the meta tags that relate to "creation" (i.e. author, copyright, generator and so on) unless you have a specific use for them.
First of all meta description and then language and robots.
You may also need verify-v1 temporarily when you are validating against http://www.google.com/webmasters
Edit: The robots tag is a SEO "tool" which can let you fine tune how the robots operate on your website. Language allows you to state the language in which the page is written in.
Which tags are useful and which
not?
All mega tags are useful, it is just that you use them when you need them. Also the link you provided does not say anything about usefulness or drawbacks or meta tags.
Use only those meta tags that you need, don't add not needed tags to your pages. This also makes page messy and longer to load.
Thanks :)
I encountered many sites including stackoverflow.com whose page source do not show META tags like keywords, description.
I am just wandering is it because they blocked it by some sort of tech or they just drop them since, as I know, those tags are not so much valuable as before.
If they blacked them, then what kind of software or tech do they need. If not then how Google extract description from those sites when Google displays search results?
Lot of dumb questions, thanks for your time and reply!
Any input is appreciated!
They're not MATA tags, they're META tags. They are not as important as the actual content of your site and the other sites that link to yours, since it's well known that meta tag content is easier to abuse and misrepresent. Meta elements are more useful in the areas where there is no benefit from such abuse, eg. content encoding or language, but some of this data can be sent by the web server in the HTTP headers anyway. So you rarely, if ever, need any meta elements.
You don't need any sort of technology to 'block' meta tags. Every tag is just a bit of text you insert into your HTML. If you don't want to send out a meta tag, you just don't write it into the HTML.
If you want specific information on how Google views your site then you could start with their webmasters page.
Just had a look around on Google .. may be followings help you something.
Avoid the META keyword tag!
Do not use the meta keywords tag. Many
people still think of this as a quick
fix for SEO. It’s not. Google no
longer uses it. In fact, it is likely
that Google penalizes sites that do
employ the meta keywords tag. Yahoo is
perhaps the only search engine that
still uses the meta keywords tag but
places very little weight on it.
Death of META Tag
pretty old link though
"In the past we have indexed the meta
keywords tag but have found that the
high incidence of keyword repetition
and spam made it an unreliable
indication of site content and
quality. We do continue to look at
this issue, and may re-include them if
the perceived quality improves over
time," said Jon Glick, AltaVista's
director of internet search.
I was wondering if using HTML entities in meta tags (like keywords and description) is the best way to go?
Does it influence the indexing from search engines?
I'd put the meta tags contents without entities as long as my charset allows the chars. I researched a bit and I found this on Google Webmasters/Site owners help and the example contains £9.24 not £9.24 nor £9.24
As is true that meta tags aren't a big factor for success, they can be a factor for failure. Indexer robots may detect a try of cheat them by using invalid keywords or description. From Wikipedia:
Early versions of search algorithms
relied on webmaster-provided
information such as the keyword meta
tag, or index files in engines like
ALIWEB. Meta tags provide a guide to
each page's content. But using meta
data to index pages was found to be
less than reliable because the
webmaster's choice of keywords in the
meta tag could potentially be an
inaccurate representation of the
site's actual content. Inaccurate,
incomplete, and inconsistent data in
meta tags could and did cause pages to
rank for irrelevant searches. Web
content providers also manipulated a
number of attributes within the HTML
source of a page in an attempt to rank
well in search engines.
The meta description can be used as the default snippet.
The meta keywords are pretty much completely ignored, but everyone still uses them anyway.
Neither will have much (if any) effect on your ranking, but a good meta description could boost your clickthrough.
Entities make difference only in amateur HTML "parsers" done with regular expressions. They aren't problem for Google.
Meta tags are not ignored. There are still read by Google, so I think, they should be used in the proper way. Google loves pages done in proper way, but remember, that meta tag is one of hundreds things that robots take into consideration.
if there are umlaute dont use entities.
i think, google is indexing the word "bremsbeläge" as "bremsbelaege" and "bremsbeläge".
The meta tag "description" does have an effect on the ranking. It is the description that Google gives in the listing, so this is the most important part that influences people to click on your link. When more people click on your link, Google assumes it has more worth for users in the searches and moves you up.