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META TAG INFLUENCE METER TAG | META INFLUENCE METER TAG

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  Meta Tag Influence Meter Tag Meta Influence Meter | Tag Influence Meter How to use Meta Influence Meter Tag on your website? Unfortunately, we still hear from people who claim that meta tags have no influence on your ranking with the search engines. Let us show you that they skip certain very important points. In Search Engine Optimization (SEO) meta tags play an important role! Especially the meta description is very important because this tag is shown as a small text under the search result. This small text combined with a relevant title tag form the text that has to persuade the person that is searching to click on your website. That leads to a much higher CTR (Click Through Rate) and actual conversion. Eventually, it is the CTR and the conversion that make the ranking position of your website. There are many meta tags and HTML-tags and obviously, they don't all influence the search result. E.g. The HTML cookie tag doesn't have any influence on your ranking with the search...

META TAG MISCELLANEOUS HTTP-EQUIV | META MISCELLANEOUS HTTP-EQUIV TAG

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  Meta Tag Miscellaneous Http-Equiv Meta Miscellaneous Http-Equiv | Miscellaneous Http-Equiv Tag How to use Miscellaneous http-equiv Tag on your website? By using the so-called HTTP-EQUIV meta tags you can add certain values to your website. Several varieties are possible: <meta http-equiv="expires" content="date"> An example of meta tag meta http-equiv="expires" Add the following meta tag in the HTML source of your page: <meta http-equiv="expires" content="mon, 27 sep 2010 14:30:00 GMT"> The date has to be added in the RFC850 format. An example of meta tag meta http-equiv="pragma" Another variant is: <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"> This tag makes sure your page will not remain in the cache of the computer of your visitor. It's useful if the content of the page regularly changes, e.g. if you have a news page on your website. An example of meta tag meta http-equiv=...

META TAGS MISCELLANEOUS | META MISCELLANEOUS TAG

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  Meta Tags Miscellaneous Meta Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous Tag How to use Miscellaneous Meta Tags on your website? Many meta tags have come and have disappeared in the previous years. This is why we also have a list of meta tags and HTML tags that are of lesser importance. The meaning of these meta tags is quite obvious. The following meta tags have no influence on your ranking with the search engines. The title of your page, the keywords and the description tag, however, do influence the ranking. <meta name="meta tag" content="value"> An example of various meta tags Add the following meta tag in the source of your web-page. There is a difference between HTML and XML. If you see at the end of a line " /> it means it is XML, if you see "> it is HTML. <meta name="identifier-URL"CONTENT="http://www.your-domain-name.com/"> <meta name="distribution" CONTENT="Global"> <meta name="note...

META TAG CANONICAL URL | META CANONICAL TAG

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  Meta Tag Canonical URL Meta Canonical | Canonical Tag How to use Meta Canonical Tag on your website? Google, Bing and Yahoo support using the canonical tag in your source. What could be the problem? You have a website page with the following fictitious URL : 1. www.yourdomainname.com/page-id=123?/size12/~dyn987 The content of this page is also available on the following page : 2. www.yourdomainname.com/about.php The URL from item a) is often the result of a CMS system with a search engine unfriendly URL. The URL from item b) is friendly for the search engines, it is readable and crawlable. However, there is just 1 problem: you have double content. Two different URL but with the same content. One links to a and the other links to b. This is where you leak PageRank. rel="canonical" This addition in your source makes search engines understand the main page if you have double content. By guiding the search engine to the most important page your PageRank will be set on the right...

META ROBOTS NO INDEX | META NO INDEX

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  Meta Robots No Index Meta Noindex Nofollow | No Index Tag How to use Meta Nofollow Tag on your website? Try to avoid having a PageRank leak on your website. Do you want to add a link but don't want to lose the search engine spiders from your site, always add the following extra text in a href : rel="nofollow" By adding this in the source of your page you can avoid leaking PageRank. Why should you use the rel="nofollow" tag? The rel=nofollow isn't a real meta tag but more of an HTML description. It is often used on blogs, forums, and guest-books. But it is also possible to use it on your website if you don't want certain links (intern or extern) to be followed and as a result leak PageRank. By adding the rel=nofollow you let the spiders know that you didn't add the link yourself but it was placed due to a blog or forum and therefore not necessarily approved. This doesn't mean that spiders will reject the link. It just indicates that the link has...

META TAG DUBLIN CORE | META DUBLIN CORE TAG

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  Meta Tag Dublin Core Meta Dublin Core | Dublin Core Tag How to use Meta Dublin Core Tag on your website? The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative ( dc meta tags ) is an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices. This metadata has hardly any influence on the ranking of your site with the search engines. It has to be said that if your pages can be archived better, they will be found more easily. And how often your site is found, the better it is for your rank. That's why we validate this metadata with almost no influence. We think that every effort you put in search ...

META TAG WINDOW TARGET | META WINDOW TARGET TAG

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  Meta Tag Window Target Meta Window Target | Window Target Tag How to use Meta Window Target Tag on your website? The HTML meta tag HTTP-EQUIV WINDOW TARGET specifies the named window of the current page. This tag can be used to stop a page from appearing in a frame with many (not all) browsers. In the past, people used this tag to avoid that a page was shown in a frameset. A page could 'break out of the frameset' and was shown as a separate sole page. Using the content-script HTML tag doesn't influence your ranking with the search engines. The title of your page, the keywords and the description tag do influence your ranking. <meta http-equiv="Window-Target" content="_value"> An example of meta tag http-equiv="Window-Target" Add the following meta tag in the source of your webpage. The difference in spelling at the end of the tag is either you use " /> = XML or "> = HTML. <meta http-equiv="Window-Target" c...

META TAG STYLE TYPE | META STYLE TYPE TAG

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  Meta Tag Style Type Meta Style Type | Style Type Tag How to use Meta Style Type Tag on your website? The HTML meta tag HTTP-EQUIV CONTENT-STYLE-TYPE specifies the default style sheet language for a document. Using the content-script HTML tag doesn't influence your ranking with the search engines. The title of your page, the keywords and the description tag do influence your ranking. <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="value"> An example of meta tag http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" Add the following meta tag in the source of your webpage. The difference in spelling at the end of the tag is either you use " /> = XML or "> = HTML. <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> Where should you add meta tags? You may add meta tags to all of your webpages, so not only on the first index page. Make sure that on every page relevant meta tags are added. Add keywords and phrases that are r...