All Meta tags - How to use them

<meta name="generator" content="programma">
A description of the program with which your site is build.

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<meta name="description" content="text">
A description of your website in 3 of 4 sentences.

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<meta name="keywords" content="text">
The keywords under which you wish your website to be found.

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<meta name="language" content="english">
The language used on your website.

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<meta name="copyright" content="text">
The owner copyright of the pictures and text used on your website.

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<meta name="web_author" content="text">
The name of the person or company that has created your website.

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<meta name="reply-to" content="email adres">
The main e-mail address of the webmaster.

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<meta name="robots" content="selection">
How far do you allow robots to spider through your website.

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<meta name="revisit-after" content="periode">
How often do you want the spiders to come back and index your website again.

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<meta name="googlebot" content="noodp">
Remove the old meta description tag from Google.

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<meta http-equiv="naam" content="value">
There are several:

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A few less known meta tags, but they are quite clear what they do:

<META NAME="Identifier-URL" CONTENT="http://www.your-domain-name.com/">
<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="Global">
<META NAME="note" CONTENT="place extra keywords">
<META NAME="subject" CONTENT="the subject of your website">
<META NAME="Copyright" CONTENT="your companyname">
<META NAME="Language" CONTENT="NL">
<META NAME="contactName" CONTENT="Mrs. E. xample">
<META NAME="contactOrganization" CONTENT="Jansen BV">
<META NAME="contactStreetAddress1" CONTENT="Jansenlaan 1">
<META NAME="contactZipcode" CONTENT="1234 AM">
<META NAME="contactCity" CONTENT="Voorthuizen">
<META NAME="contactCountry" CONTENT="The Netherlands">
<META NAME="contactPhoneNumber" CONTENT="+31 20 5566778">
<META NAME="contactFaxNumber" CONTENT="+31 20 5566779">
<META NAME="contactNetworkAddress" CONTENT="email@domain-name.com<">
<META NAME="linkage" CONTENT="http://www.your-domain-name.com">
<META NAME="dc.language" CONTENT="NL">
<META NAME="dc.source" CONTENT="http://www.your-domain-name.com">
<META NAME="dc.relation" CONTENT="http://www.your-2nd-domain-name.com>/">
<META NAME="dc.title" CONTENT="A title">
<META NAME="dc.keywords" CONTENT="more keywoords">
<META NAME="dc.subject" CONTENT="de content">
<META NAME="dc.description" CONTENT="Extra description">

Google uses several meta tags. The first one is to avoid that a webpage is submitted to the cache of a search engine. The cache is een archived version of a webpage that is stored in the Google index. This makes that it's possible to show a webpage that is for a certain reason not available on the original website. If you will avoid that the archivefunction is used place the following tag:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

This tag can be used by all the search engines. Especially for Google you can replace the word 'robots' by 'Googlebot'. Google also shows a small piece of text of the page in their results. These textfragments can be kept out of the Google database by adding the following tag:

<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOSNIPPET">

The search engine offers more options to remove more pages out of their index or even to (quickly) submit your site.

Meta tags Summary - Important SEO things to remember

1. Read why meta tags are important and how they affect the search engines.
2. Use our meta tags generator to create the correct meta tags.
3. Use our website analyzer to get professional advice from the meta tags experts.
4. Submit your website to the search engines and choose one of our packages: