HTML Help - META Tags
META Tags
The <META> tag is used to provide information about the HTML document. One of the most useful functions of the <META> tag is to to provide information to search engines and to the users of search engines. Quite often when you supply details to a search engine, and you get information returned in an incomprehensible format. This is because in the absence of a description in the <META> tag, the search engine will return the first couple of lines of text available on the page.
The following is a list of META Tags and is not complete by any means, the ones in red you will need to get indexed by the search engines not forgetting of course the <TITLE> PAGE TITLE </TITLE> tag in the head section.
<meta name="author" content="myname "> as it says authors name
<meta name="publisher" content="myname">
<meta name="copyright" content="myname ">
<meta name="keywords" content=" "> Keywords - the words you input here are what the search engine will find when queried - no more than 1000 characters including spaces and commas. Each keyword is separated by a comma.
<meta name="description" content=" "> In here you put a full description of your page
<meta name="page-topic" content=" "> Whats the page about
<meta name="audience" content="all"> Who is the page meant for
<meta name="expires" content="never"> Does the page expire - options NEVER or date
<meta name="page-type" content="educational"> Page type - loosely equates to directory categories a la Yahoo
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> Set like this the spider will follow all the links in finds from this page, other options are
- index,nofollow - Index this page but don't follow links
- noindex,nofollow - Don't index this page don't follow links
- noindex,follow - Don't index this page but follow links
<meta name="revisit_after" content="15 days"> Sets the time between visits from the spider - whether of not this has any effect is open to question and dependant on the particular spider
<meta name="rating" content="General"> Rating of the page - who should view it
<meta name="classification" content="general"> As before
<meta name="doc-class" content="completed"> State of page - Completed, Not Completed are some of the options