Meta Tags in SEO: Title, Description, Keywords & Robot Tag

Meta Tags in SEO

Meta tags play a crucial role when it comes to SEO, they community how our website should look like in Search engine results page.  

Take a look at meta titles and how we use them on the website.

• <meta name=”title” content=”Free Web tutorials”>
• <meta name=”description” content=”Free Web tutorials”>
• <meta name=”keywords” content=”HTML, CSS, JavaScript”>
• <meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow”>

Other Important Meta Tags in SEO

• <meta name=”author” content=”John Doe”>
• <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0″>
• <meta charset=”UTF-8″>

Hope you got some idea about meta tags in SEO, now let’s understand them one by one 

1. Meta Title

Title of a website or single web page, it communicates to search engines how the page title should look like when a user searches about our website or services we offer in SERP.

• Syntax: <meta name=”title” content=”Free Web tutorials”>
• Check Detailed information about Meta Title Optimization.

2. Meta description

Brief summary of a website or single web page, it communicates to search engines how the page description should look like when a user searches about our website or services we offer in SERP.

• Syntax: <meta name=”description” content=”Free Web tutorials”>
• Check Detailed information about Meta description Optimization.

3. Meta keywords

This Meta tag communicates to google how many other important keywords that you wanted to rank in the SERP.

• Syntax: <meta name=”keywords” content=”HTML, CSS, JavaScript”>
• Check Detailed information about Meta keywords Optimization.

4. Meta Robots Tag

This Meta tag whether a particular page can be crawled & can index in search engine results page.

• Syntax: <meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow”>
• Check Detailed information about Meta keywords Optimization.

5. Meta Author Tag

This Meta tag communicates to search engine about the original author who written the information available on the site

• <meta name=”author” content=”Janardhan Nagaiahgari”>

6. Meta Publisher Tag

This Meta tag communicates to search engine about the original publisher who published the information available on the site

• Syntax: <meta name=”publisher” content=”blogs.janardhan.digital”>

7. Meta viewport tag

It communicates to the browser how to render the page on different screen sizes such as desktop, tablet and mobile resolutions

• Syntax: <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0″>