Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Have you checked Meta Tags of your website or blog?

If you are running your blog or website then it is important to know about Meta Tags.

Meta Tags provide information of your website/blog to search engine like google, bing, yahoo for how to display your website or blog to their search engine.

look at this link what is Meta tags? by W3schools.

Let's take case study of my blog, before putting meta data my blog display in google search result as per below.



then i came across google webmaster link about meta data they are using for crawling and add some of Meta tags for my blog and after one day google has change descrption as per my meta data as per below. (you can type my name "arun rana" to google to see in live)



You can also control of your web pages from displaying in google search by below meta tag.
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">

After putting Meta data if you want to test your site/blog for meta data then there is very good tool available online  called Meta Tag Analyzer which will give you very deep research and review of meta data.

Useful Reading about Meta Tags



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