Category Archives: Meta Tags

Meta Description May Affect Rankings After All

It’s “common SEO knowledge” that your meta description does not help your Google rankings. I’m not so sure I agree with this assessment, though. The meta description is the snippet that shows up in a Google search below your title. If you don’t have a description in your source code, Google will pull a snippet from [...]

Meta Description

Meta tags are located in your source code. The head portion of your source code should contain 3 meta tags: title description keywords For best results list them in the order shown below: <title>SEO – Learn Search Engine Optimization</title> <meta name=“description” content=“Learn search engine optimization to obtain the highest Google and other search engine rankings possible!”> <meta name=“keywords” content=“seo, search engine optimization, search [...]

Robots Meta Tag

The following information comes straight from Google. Multiple content values We recommend that you place all content values in one meta tag. This keeps the meta tags easy to read and reduces the chance for conflicts. For instance: <META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”> Unnecessary content values By default, Googlebot will index a page and follow links to it. So there’s [...]
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