Meta tags
The standard template of Meta tags that can be used for all projects are as follows. And this can be copy pasted and altered to my needs and sources by just copy pasting and minor alterations. <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ />
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”en-us” />
<meta name=”ROBOTS” content=”ALL” />
<meta name=”Copyright” content=”Copyright line here” />
<meta http-equiv=”imagetoolbar” content=”no” />
<meta name=”MSSmartTagsPreventParsing” content=”true” />
<meta name=”description” content=”Description here” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”keywords here” />
<meta name=”Rating” content=”General” />
<meta name=”revisit-after” content=”15 Days” />
<meta name=”doc-class” content=”Completed” />
The idea is to simply stay with the standard list of Meta tags to use conveniently for each project, instead of re-writing the list from zilch every time for every project.
Looking at all in turn:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
The charset must be defined on each page and the mostly used way is to bring to effect the meta element above. This is the most important thing is to place this tag before the title.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
This is NOT necessary. The language should be defined with a lang attribute on the <html> opening tag: <html lang=”en”>
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL">
Default is “ALL”, so if u want to allow anything else excpt indexing thi should not be necessary. Other values are noindex, noarchive, nofollow.
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
If u have a larger image only then is this useful as it stops the context icon of the IE. Otherwise this is not required.
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true">
This is NOT required, it is a figure of MS technology which was never used.
<meta name="description" content="Description here">
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords here">
Description is very important, just make sure that there is a specific one for each page, and not a general one for the entire site. Keywords are of not quite that much importance, but there just might be a minor effect.
<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright line here">
<meta name="Rating" content="General">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 Days">
<meta name="doc-class" content="Completed">
Code bloat: is NOT required. They are used only if an internal search engine is required.
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