How to add Meta Elements on your blog

What are Meta Elements? Where should we put Meta Elements on our blog? and What is the purpose of Meta Elements?

These are the questions that this article will answer.

First we need to define what Meta Elements are. Meta Elements are those HTML or XHTML elements that provides information about a certain webpage. Meta Elements are also used by the Search Engines for a web page to be categorize correctly. Adding Meta Elements on your page is an old way of optimizing a site but, in my own experience Meta Elements still works.

Meta Elements are inserted between tags. Here is an example of Meta Elements on a web page.

Description and keywords are some of the Meta Attributes or Meta tags. The other attributes are language attribute and robot attribute.

Meta Description tags is where you can add the description of your page. Major Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN supports this attribute. When you used one of the search engines and search for your blog. Because those major search engines can't generate an automatic description of your blog or web page the description that you inputed on the Meta Description Tags will appear below the Title of your blog.

It was year 1997 when Meta Keywords Tags are first used. It was popularized by Infoseek and AltaVista search engines. In no time, the popularity of adding keywords began to spread. Year 1998 when Search engines starts to drop the used of Meta Keywords tags, because some Web masters used this attributes to add false keywords. SE also realized that meta elements specially Meta Keywords Tags are misleading and unreliable.

Next is the Language Attributes. Language attributes are mostly used for those site that uses different languages. Through this attribute search engines will be inform which language does a site used.

Another attribute is the Meta Robot Tags. Meta Robot tags are used if you want your page or your site not to be index by the spiders. Here is the format of adding robot tags on your page. Just like the other meta attributes you need to add the robot tags in between the tags.

Nowadays, there are lots of free meta tags generator. Some of the Meta tags generator that will be find on the web are Submit Express Meta Tag Generator, Vancouver Meta Tags Builder, Online Meta tag and many more. Those sites that are mention can automatically generate meta tags for your website. You just have to follow instructions and fill up some forms and in just one click they will generate your tags and you just need to add it on your template.

Meta Tags analyzer is another tools to be used in meta tags. The meta tags analyzer will check if the tags that you added on your site are correct. Submit Express also has the tools for analyzing your tags.

Those are some ways on how to add meta tags on your page. Now that you know how to generate meta tags you can easily add tags on your sites. Old ways but, it will surely work for your site