Well all of those who are new in the SEO Business have heard about the term Meta tags and their importance in the SEO. People say that Meta tags play an important role in boosting your ranks in Google. Yes, it is right but let me explain you that Meta tags are not Magical Miracles, which can take your website on the top of a search engine. According to many SEO experts appropriate Meta tags is one of the many SEO Tips must be followed to achieve high rankings in Google or any other search engine.
A few years back Meta tags were really magic bullets and were one of the most efficient and widely used methods to boost search engine ranking. However, Meta tags are still effective to be notice by any search engine.
What is a Meta Tag?
• A Meta tag is a hidden tag in the head section of any blog or website
• Meta tag provides additional information of your document to the search engine
• It has three section content, name, and http eqiv
• Meta tags do not have a closing tag
SEO Related Meta Tags
The most commonly and widely used Meta tag, which also related to SEO enhancement of your website is name and content Meta Tag. Content can be any valid string and name contains value that is useful for the page.
Parts of Meta name tag
# description - a short description of the page
content="Boost your marketing strategy with SEO Tips">
# author - the author's name and possibly email address
# robots - to allow or disallow indexing by robots
# copyright - the copyright date of the page
SEO Tips to Enhance Meta Tags
• Meta tags are use in head section of the HTML page. Always use the keywords and description related to your website and blog in Meta tags
•Describe your page and website in a one-line description. Do not use long phrases or paragraphs in your description tags.
•Do not spam your keyword tag with a long list of the keywords, only add those keywords for which you are sure that your website related to and people can find you easily using those keywords.
Example of Meta Tags
Copy the below mentioned code and add this code to the head section of your website. You have to add your keywords and description in the content section of the below mentioned code
Role of Meta Tags in SEO
Find out your Website is Indexed in Major Search Engines or not
The major reason of Implementing SEO Tips to our website is that we want it to be top in any search engine. According to my SEO experience it is very necessary to check out weather your website is indexed in the search engine or not as it let you know how many pages of your website are currently listed in Google. In order to check out weather our website is included in the database of a certain search engine there are a few commands. These commands can tell us either our website is indexed in that particular search engine or not. There are a few steps which you must make sure are completed before checking that your website is indexed in a particular search engine or not.
• Make sure you have registered a domain
• Make sure you have uploaded your website and all the necessary data to the Web Server
• Make sure you have submitted your website in Major Search Engines
After making sure that you have completed the following steps you are now in a position to check weather your website is indexed by search engines or not. Let us start with the most popular search engine that is of course Google
How to check weather your website is indexed in Google
• Open the Google search engine in your browser
• In the search box type the command site:http://www.abc.com
• Where http://www.abc.com must be replaced by your domain name.
• It will display a list of indexed web pages of your website in Google
How to check weather your website is indexed in Yahoo
• Open the Yahoo search engine in your browser
• In the search box type the command site:http://www.abc.com
• Where http://www.abc.com must be replaced with your domain name
• It will display a list of indexed web pages of your website in Yahoo
How to check weather your website is indexed in MSN
• Open live.com in your web browser
• In the search box simply type the whole URL of your website.
• If your website is indexed by MSN it will display all the web pages indexed in MSN
Reason your website is not listed in major search engines
There are many reasons due to which your website is not indexed by most of the search engines. According to my SEO experience these are a few reasons due to which your website is not indexed in search engines
• Your website has not been indexed yet
• Your website may contain frames in its design Structure
• Your website contain broken links
• Your web site is not search engine friendly means it may contain loads of images and other media.
• Your website is not hosted on a reliable server
• You have placed duplicate content on your website
• You have dynamic structure of your URL which is not followed properly by many search engines