Meta tags are very important elements of your on page search optimization strategy. They influence your search ranking and how your results are displayed (i.e. they determine what text is displayed to the searcher when your site appears in the search results).

In order to produce a comprehensive set of meta tags you could create then all by hand however it is perhaps best to consider the use of a meta tag generator for such a task. A tag generator (or meta generator) helps to automate the process.

So what types of tags does a meta tags creator produce?.

1)The title tag – this is a vital tag and one that every meta tag generator should produce. It sets the title that is shown both in the search engines and in the top of the browser window. It is important in SEO as it is a key indicator of the content of the page itself. The title tag should contain your major keywords for the page.

2)Meta keywords tag – this is a list of keywords that are relevant to the webpage, there is debate as to the usefulness of this tag with respect to SEO but should be included. Every meta tag creator should produce this tag as standard.

3)Meta description – this contains the follow description of your site and is what appears in the search results pages in the search engines. This tag should contain all the major keywords for your site but in human readable form rather than a simple list.

4)Meta robots – the robots tag determines how search engine robots view and index your site so it is very important that you do not make any mistakes with this one (otherwise you may end up telling the search engine spiders that you do not want them to index your site!). In essence the tag sets two attributes for your site, these are as follows:-

index / noindex – the noindex attribute tells the spiders that you do not wish search engine spiders to index the page (therefore it will never appear in search engine results!). The index attribute has the opposite effect.

follow / nofollow – the nofollow tag tells the spiders that you do not want them to follow any links that they find on the page (you may wish to do this on a page that only contains links to external sites for example). The follow tag has the opposite effect.

A similar effect to the above tags can be achieved through the use of the robots.txt file (which is covered in a separate article) and this is the most commonly method of implementing such features.

Hopefully the above descriptions demonstrate the power and usefulness of meta tags and the importance of having them set up correctly. In order to achieve this correct setup it is advisable to use a meta tag generator, this will help to ensure that the format and structure of the tags are set up in an acceptable and consistent fashion.

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