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what the key to make good meta tags?

Jun 16, 2012 4:56AM PDT

what the key to make good meta tags?

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How!
Jun 16, 2012 7:28AM PDT

Type that question on google or ask.com and consider the wealth of knowledge found.

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Meta tags
Jun 18, 2012 7:54PM PDT

you have some knowledge of codes and HTML for make meta tags and You should write the meta tag attractive and relevant to page while targeting your keywords.

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meta tags
Jul 15, 2012 12:41PM PDT

You can use tools like meta tags generator but you don't have to worry about this since Google doesn't take meta tags important for page rank.

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SEOmoz
Jul 15, 2012 8:52PM PDT

Read "SEOmoz" guides. Can't beat 'em.

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Meta tags
Jul 16, 2012 10:09PM PDT

Here is the example of meta tag-

<head>
<title>Not a Meta Tag, but required anyway</title>
<meta name="description" content="Awesome Description Here">
<meta name="keywords" content="Use main keywords related to page">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
</head>
Title should no longer than 69 character.
Description should be no longer than 155 characters.
The keyword tags should contain between 4 and 10 keywords.

Robots Meta Tag

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

These are the main meta tags we use

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Meta tag is a combination of many different tags
Jul 17, 2012 3:55PM PDT

Meta tag is a combination of many different tags such as title tag. Description tag, keywords tag etc. It is placed inside the head tag of the HTML tag. While making Meta Tag there need to consider main three tags which is one of the most important tags of the Meta Tags such as given below:-

The Title Tag:- The title tag appears in the head block of the page and it should not be longer than 65 character. As it describe the Title of the page.

The Description Meta Tag:- The description size should not be longer than 155 characters (including spaces). However, check the search engine results page (SERP) of choice to confirm this. As the Description tells the search engine what your page or site is all about.

The Keywords Meta Tag:- All the keywords or keyword Phrase should be written in this tag. Which help search engine to understand the keywrods of the page.

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Use of tools with manual effort is the key to make meta tags
Aug 2, 2012 9:00PM PDT

Meta tags preparation required a great research also the analysis of that research with the use of trustworthy tools like Google web master tool.

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Use of tools with manual effort is the key to make meta tags
Aug 7, 2012 3:14AM PDT

Here are the main meta tags that should be mainly considered.
'title' is one of the main meta tag that Google take in consideration. Title should be such that if contains your targeted keywords. Its maximum length can go upto 68 letters for google and upto110 for yahoo.
'desrcription' contains the description of your site.
'robots.txt' is for giving certain instructions to the search engine for particular services. for more tips on it , you should have a link on searchenginland.com