Meta Tags
Html is a markup language. It marks a text document with tags, Web browsers interpret these tags, and the result is a formatted document visible in the Web user's browser window. Html tags can also define document structure in a way that importance of various parts is understandable, both for machines and humans, and resemble the layout of classic word processing documents. One such is the Heading tag (H1-6).
February 2010
The title of a Web page is important. A common truth that is almost undisputable. The Meta description tag is on the other hand of lesser importance, but how important is disputable. The Meta description tag is useless for Web site visitors, but it can be very useful for computers and search engine crawlers reading and indexing a Web site of which many use it to publish excerpt on link pages and in search engine results.
January 2010
The Meta description tag has had its highs and lows. During the early days of the Web's search engines the Meta description tag played an important role for Web sites along with the keywords Meta tag. Nowadays, the keywords Meta tag is of lesser importance while the description tag has held its position of importance.
July 2009
The head part of Web pages is very interesting. It can contain a lot of code while most of it is not visible in the Web page when rendered in a browser. It can contain Meta tags, title tag, comment blocks, style sheet code, links to style sheets, and scripts and it can even contain large chunks of on-page scripts.
July 2009
When marketing a Web site with the search engines the ultimate goal of every Web site owner and Webmaster is to have their Web pages listed as high as possible with the search engines of the Web.
July 2009
Books and articles on content and search engine optimization often mention keyword and phrase analysis and generation. Search engines have come of age and they are better at understanding Web page content and text than ever before. The practice of the past to include duplicate keywords in Web page content does not help today's Webmasters; it is outdated optimization technique.
June 2009
The description of a Web page, often referred to as the description Meta Tag, serves a similar purpose as the title tag. The description is not visible to browsers' users, but it is visible to other computers connecting to the Web page and that includes the search engines
September 2008
Web page titles serve multiple purposes and deserve a great deal of attention by webmasters. The often underestimated and overlooked title tag can have dramatic affects on the number of possible visitors and even the bottom line of a Web business.
September 2008
The title of a Web page is perhaps one of the most important parts of any Web page and is often overlooked or underestimated. In addition, of appearing at the top of the browsers' window the title has multiple visibilities, both in various features of the browsers and with the search engines
September 2008
Meta tags had their hay days in the last decade of the last century, yet they are very important, but at least one type of Meta tag, the KEYWORD, is on the way out. The inappropriate use of the KEYWORD tag has made it almost useless.
September 2008
