Meta <meta> tags are HTML Elements which describes about the page's content to the crowlers of the search engines, Here is the complete List of Meta Tags which helps to rank the website in the search engines. These tags are not visible on the website but in the code of the web page. Meta tags tell search engines about the web page and its content. Meta tags are of used to specify the page's keywords, description about the content on the page and keywords of the content about which content is being published, and about the author of the content, last modified content and many other informations about the content of the page. Below is the list andtypes of meta tags used :
Basic List of Meta Tags
Following is the list of Basic HTML meta tags such as keywords, description, title and author of the web page and content being published.<meta name="keywords" content="your, tags"/> <meta name="description" content="150 words"/> <meta name="subject" content="your website's subject"> <meta name="copyright"content="company name"> <meta name="language" content="ES"> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta name="revised" content="Sunday, July 18th, 2010, 5:15 pm" /> <meta name="abstract" content=""> <meta name="topic" content=""> <meta name="summary" content=""> <meta name="Classification" content="Business"> <meta name="author" content="name, email@hotmail.com"> <meta name="designer" content=""> <meta name="copyright" content=""> <meta name="reply-to" content="email@hotmail.com"> <meta name="owner" content=""> <meta name="url" content="http://www.websiteaddrress.com"> <meta name="identifier-URL" content="http://www.websiteaddress.com"> <meta name="directory" content="submission"> <meta name="category" content=""> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"> <meta name="distribution" content="Global"> <meta name="rating" content="General"> <meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days"> <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0"> <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache"> OpenGraph Meta Tags
OpenGraph meta tags are the tags used for Facebook, With OpenGraph tags it helps facebook to get the infromation about the content being shared on facebook, these include og:title, ig:url, og:image and other List of Meta Tags listed below.<meta name="og:title" content="The Rock"/> <meta name="og:type" content="movie"/> <meta name="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/"/> <meta name="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/> <meta name="og:site_name" content="IMDb"/> <meta name="og:description" content="A group of U.S. Marines, under command of..."/> <meta name="fb:page_id" content="43929265776" /> <meta name="og:email" content="me@example.com"/> <meta name="og:phone_number" content="650-123-4567"/> <meta name="og:fax_number" content="+1-415-123-4567"/> <meta name="og:latitude" content="37.416343"/> <meta name="og:longitude" content="-122.153013"/> <meta name="og:street-address" content="1601 S California Ave"/> <meta name="og:locality" content="Palo Alto"/> <meta name="og:region" content="CA"/> <meta name="og:postal-code" content="94304"/> <meta name="og:country-name" content="USA"/> <meta property="og:type" content="game.achievement"/> <meta property="og:points" content="POINTS_FOR_ACHIEVEMENT"/> <meta property="og:video" content="http://example.com/awesome.swf" /> <meta property="og:video:height" content="640" /> <meta property="og:video:width" content="385" /> <meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" /> <meta property="og:video" content="http://example.com/html5.mp4" /> <meta property="og:video:type" content="video/mp4" /> <meta property="og:video" content="http://example.com/fallback.vid" /> <meta property="og:video:type" content="text/html" /> <meta property="og:audio" content="http://example.com/amazing.mp3" /> <meta property="og:audio:title" content="Amazing Song" /> <meta property="og:audio:artist" content="Amazing Band" /> <meta property="og:audio:album" content="Amazing Album" /> <meta property="og:audio:type" content="application/mp3" />Create Custom Meta Tags
Use custom meta tags to store data that you need in javascript, instead of hard-coding that data into your javascript. I store my Google Analytics code in meta tags. Here's List of Meta Tags examples:<meta name="google-analytics" content="1-AHFKALJ"/> <meta name="disqus" content="abcdefg"/> <meta name="uservoice" content="asdfasdf"/> <meta name="mixpanel" content="asdfasdf"/>Company/Service Meta Tags
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<meta name="microid" content="mailto+http:sha1:e6058ed7fca4a1921cq91d7f1f3b8736cd3cc1g7" />Apple Meta Tags
Fot Apple meta tags it is important to note that first full-screen mode is specified, as described in apple-apple-mobile-web-app-capable. If set to black, the status bar has a black background. If set to black-translucent, the status bar is black and translucent. Below is the list of apple meta tags.<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> <meta content="yes" name="apple-touch-fullscreen" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta name="viewport" content="width = 320, initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no">Internet Explorer Meta Tags
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="RevealTrans(Duration=2.0,Transition=2)" /> <meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="RevealTrans(Duration=3.0,Transition=12)" /> <meta name="mssmarttagspreventparsing" content="true"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1"> <meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="http://blog.reybango.com/about/"/> <meta name="msapplication-window" content="width=800;height=600"/> <meta name="msapplication-navbutton-color" content="red"/> <meta name="application-name" content="Rey Bango Front-end Developer"/> <meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="Launch Rey Bango's Blog"/> <meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=About;action-uri=/about/;icon-uri=/images/about.ico" /> <meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=The Big List;action-uri=/the-big-list-of-javascript-css-and-html-development-tools-libraries-projects-and-books/;icon-uri=/images/list_links.ico" /> <meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=jQuery Posts;action-uri=/category/jquery/;icon-uri=/images/jquery.ico" /> <meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Start Developing;action-uri=/category/javascript/;icon-uri=/images/script.ico" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" />TweetMeme Meta Tags
<meta name="tweetmeme-title" content="Retweet Button Explained" />Blog Catalog Meta Tags
<meta name="blogcatalog" />Rails Meta Tags
<meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"/> <meta name="csrf-token" content="/bZVwvomkAnwAI1Qd37lFeewvpOIiackk9121fFwWwc="/>Apple Tags
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta name= "viewport" content = "width = 320, initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no"> <meta name= "viewport" content = "width = device-width"> <meta name = "viewport" content = "initial-scale = 1.0"> <meta name = "viewport" content = "initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="touch-icon-iphone.png" /> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="touch-icon-ipad.png" /> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="touch-icon-iphone4.png" /> <link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="/startup.png"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" type="image/png" href="/apple-touch-icon.png" />HTML Link Tags
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/martini" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="fluid-icon" type="image/png" href="/fluid-icon.png" /> <link rel="me" type="text/html" href="http://google.com/profiles/thenextweb"/> <link rel='shortlink' href='http://blog.unto.net/?p=353' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2003' href='http://blog.unto.net/2003/05/' /> <link rel='index' title='DeWitt Clinton' href='http://blog.unto.net/' /> <link rel='start' title='Pattern Recognition 1' href='http://blog.unto.net/photos/pattern_recognition_1_about/' /> <link rel='prev' title='OpenSearch and OpenID? A sure way to get my attention.' href='http://blog.unto.net/opensearch/opensearch-and-openid-a-sure-way-to-get-my-attention/' /> <link rel='next' title='Not blog' href='http://blog.unto.net/meta/not-blog/' /> <link rel="search" href="/search.xml" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Viatropos" /> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=3"/> <link rel="first" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php"/> <link rel="next" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=4"/> <link rel="previous" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=2"/> <link rel="last" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=147"/> <link rel='shortlink' href='http://smallbiztrends.com/?p=43625' /> <link rel="canonical" href="http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/06/9-things-to-do-before-entering-social-media.html" /> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://smallbiztrends.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd" /> <link rel="pingback" href="http://smallbiztrends.com/xmlrpc.php" /> <link media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" href="http://wordpress.org/style/iphone.css" type="text