How To Optimize Your Meta Tags?
I have been asked many times how to properly optimize the meta tags for better SE positioning. Below you will find some interesting resources which will help you optimize better your website
- Meta Description
Meta Description is basically a summary of what your site is about. Don’t forget that meta tags are crawled by Google Bots and they are really important. A simple code of meta description would be like <meta name=”DESCRIPTION” content=”The text you want goes here.”>
Let’s write a simple description and see which would perform better
a. <meta name=”DESCRIPTION” content=”Webmaster Information For All.”>
b. <meta name=”DESCRIPTION” content=”Useful webmaster resources which will help your site rank higher on search engines and get much more exposure.”>So which one do you think would perform better? Definitely the second one as it gives more information about your site
- Meta Keywords
Meta Keywords are another factor which affects your SE ranking position. If you have a hosting website you should add keywords which are related to your niche online. The code is as follows:<meta name=”KEYWORDS” content=”Your Keyword list over here“>
Make sure you don’t add 3-4 same keywords or dont use more than 10 different keywords. A good example would be:
<meta name=”KEYWORDS” content=”web hosting, cheap web hosting, compare host, hosting packages, linux hosting“>
- TITLE Another important factor is the title of your page. It is shown at the top of the browser and its the primary thing seen (or read) from Google Bot<title> Make Money Online with Olgi Zenullari</title>
So the above three optimizations will help you achieve better results and gain more traffic from search engines. I would strongly recommend you to use a SITEMAP for your site too as a Google Bot will find the possible linking from your first page and index all the other pages aswell I have also experimented with another meta tag which I would definitely suggest you to use it if you have a blog or a site which you update frequently
<meta name=”revisit-after” content=”7 days”>
This meta tag tells to the google bot (spider) after how many days should it revisit your site. Based on your update frequency you can set 3 days or 7 days or even 14 days Hope you have found something useful in this article
Thanks for your attention
Olgi Zenullari
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December 31, 2008 at 6:33 pm | izu mou
Thank you Olgi,I am happy my meta description is optimised by google.Is it true that blogger blogs is more friendly in google search that wordpress self hosted Blog??Can you please Blog about this??