Understanding Meta tags: Definition, meta tag analysis of a webpage of choice and description of each meta tag

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In HTML, tags or meta elements are tags placed in the head section of your code that help define the contents of a web page. For example, a description meta tag is used by Internet search engines to display a description of your page in their search results. Each meta element must contain an opening and closing <meta> tag. 


(Morris and Morris, 2022)


There are unlimited examples of metatags :




In the next picture, I will show different metatags on a webpage:


  1. Meta description tag: is describing the product put on the website .
  2. Meta theme-color tag: The theme-color value for the name attribute of the <meta> element indicates a suggested color that user agents should use to customize the display of the page or of the surrounding user interface. If specified, the content attribute must contain a valid CSS <color>.
  3. Meta robots tag: The robots meta tag lets you utilize a granular, page-specific approach to controlling how an individual page should be indexed and served to users in Google Search results. Place the robots meta tag in the <head> section of a given page.
  4. Meta Google site verification tag: Whit this metatag, google can verify your site is working properly
  5. Meta facebook domain verification tag: Allows users to share web pages on Facebook.


References

Morris, K. and Morris, K., 2022. Best Meta Tags for SEO - Ultimate Guide to SEO Meta Tags in 2020. [online] Rank Movers. Available at: <https://www.rankmovers.com/important-seo-meta-tags/> [Accessed 1 August 2022].





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