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Meta tags were introduced with HTML 3.0 to describe information about the web pages, mainly the author, keywords and page description.
Search engines use programs called web robots, crawlers, worms, or spiders to search the Internet collecting information in the Meta data tags from each new page. The robots catalog or index this information into its database to be used by search engine(s). The information in the title element is used by some search engines.
• META descriptions are located within the HEAD element.
• All begin with the word META, the element name.
• META element is an empty (single) element that must be closed />
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Meta Tags |
Content |
| Meta Name="keywords" | Content="Descriptive words or phrases" |
| Meta Name="description" | Content="Page description" |
| Meta Name="author" | Content="name of web designer" |
Other Meta Elements |
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| Send the visitor to a specific page after a time period.
This is useful if you want to redirect them to a new page. Enter the next line of text to redirect or refresh a page. The value 5 seconds is changeable.
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| Meta http-equiv="refresh" | Content="5; URL=filename.html" |
| Meta Name="generator" | Content="HTML editor" |
| Meta Name="copyright" | Content="Copyright owner" |
| Meta Name="robots" | Content="All", "Noindex", "Nofollow" |
| link rel="stylesheet" | href="style.css"
Links to a stylesheet file. |
Redirect and Refresh Page
- Refresh and redirect
Place these codes in the head meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=garden1.html" to redirect the file to another page automatically.
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| Resource: Search Engine Watch's
Meta Tags http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html |