The Early Blogger

How to get listed on Search Engines? It all starts with your META TAGS….

Here is the following Meta Tags that is very needed in your web page.

<META http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″>
<META name=”keywords” content=”keyword1,keyword2,keyword3″>
<META name=”description” content=”brief description about the site”>
<META name=”robots” Content=”Index,Follow”>

No need to have other meta tags like abstract, re-visit and all, most people don’t read it.

Now…

<META http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″>

This tag is tells content type is html and character set used it iso-8859-1 there are other character sets also but this is the one mostly used..

<META name=”keywords” content=”keyword1,keyword2,keyword3″>

This one should have all your keywords inside starting from keyword with most counts…

keyword tag for our example would be something like :

<META name=”keywords” content=”tech news,technology news, computer technology news,information technology,software news”>

Remember to put around 15-20 keywords max not more than that. Don’t repeat keywords or dont put keywords like, “tech news”, “info tech news”, “latest tech news” and so on…

<META name=”description” content=”brief description about the site”>

Provide short description about your site and include all the keywords mentioned in the title tag.

Description tag should be:

<META name=”description” content=”One Stop for Latest Tech News, Information Technology News, Computer Related and Software news.”>

It can be up to 255 characters and avoid using more than 3 “,” commas

<META name=”robots” Content=”Index,Follow”>

This is used for search robots. Following explanation will help you:

index,follow = index the page as well as follow the links
noindex,follow = dont index the page but follow the links
index,nofollow = index the page but dont follow the links
noindex,nofollow = dont index page, dont follow the links
all = same as index,follow
none = same as noindex,nofollow