Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and […]

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More meta attibutes for search engines NOODP The search engines Google, Yahoo! and MSN use in some cases the title and abstract of the Open Directory Project (ODP) listing of a web site for the title and/or description (also called snippet or abstract) in the search engine results pages (SERPS). To give webmasters the option […]

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The keywords attribute The keywords attribute was popularized by search engines such as Infoseek and AltaVista in 1995, and its popularity quickly grew until it became one of the most commonly used meta elements. By late 1997, however, search engine providers realized that information stored in meta elements, especially the keyword attribute, was often unreliable […]

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Meta Tags – Additional attibutes for search engines NOODP The search engines Google, Yahoo! and MSN use in some cases the title and abstract of the Open Directory Project (ODP) listing of a web site at Dmoz.org for the title and/or description (also called snippet or abstract) in the search engine results pages (SERPS). To […]

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Meta elements (Meta Tags) are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML document. Meta elements (Meta Tags) provide information about a given webpage, most often to help search engines categorize them correctly. They are inserted into the […]

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