Mata Tag

What are they, when and how to use them

In this chapter we will examine the meta tag (or "meta" as they are often called). Meta tags are special HTML tags through which you can specify information (indeed, meta-information) of various kinds and types of a page web.

This chapter will discuss only those meta tags related to search engines. For a more general discussion and for those who are not familiar with HTML a look at official documentation W3C on meta tags.

Start by saying that the purpose of positioning in the search engines The META TAG DO NOT NEED TO ALMOST NOTHING.

The meta tags have a minimum value

Search engines decide the position of a page based on text on the page itself, the popularity of the website and on various other parameters.

Unfortunately there is a widespread belief that meta-tags serve to "make register" a site on search engines and that their presence on a page can magically draw engine spiders, or even that serve to to get visitors on the site.

Driven by the desire to find a convenient and fast (though useless), was born the common belief that to get good results on search engines is sufficient to a website "as it happens" (although technically poor) and then put on his pages meta tags, perhaps created by a generator meta tag ("meta tag generator") find anywhere.

Who proceeds obtained as described above, of course, disastrous results.

A website is not really optimized derive no benefit by positioning the meta tags, also the many existing meta tag generators encourage users to abandon automatisms that do not allow them to understand what they are really doing and often produce unnecessary meta tags that are of no help to the search engines, unnecessarily burdening the size in bytes of the web page.

The meta tag which we will have lost most of their effectiveness as a tool for the positioning of web pages, however, remain sometimes useful for strengthen a minimum the theme of the page and often also serve as a tool for usability towards users.

Essentially, meta tags dedicated to the search engines are three:

• DESCRIPTION

 This meta tag allows you to enter a description of the contents of web page in which it appears.

• KEYWORDS

This meta tag allows you to specify a list of keywords that regarding the topics covered in the web page.

• ROBOTS

Unlike the two meta tags mentioned above, the purpose of which is to include additional information on the content of the page, this other half tag contains "advice behavior"For the spider that will pick up and analyze the page. We will explain more fully below what we mean by "advice behavior".

These three are added the meta tag dedicated to Google, which is reported as such engine currently assumes a predominant role the scene of the search engines.

What is duplicate content?

 In the field of search engine optimization makes for many years, always a round of the term that triggers among the optimizers fear and insecurity. We are talking about so-called duplicate content. But what is this all about? This question let's get to the bottom.

The fact is that the search engines and especially market leader Google special importance on the fact of finding unique content on each Web page. By implication, this means that search engines see it at all happy when text content appears twice on one side or on different sites on the Internet.

The rationale for this approach are clear. The seeker will certainly not be pleased if he gets on a specific topic proposed five different sites from the search engine, which all have the same text content. For this reason, the search engines try to detect duplicate content on the Internet and filter out accordingly, for example, the fact that the relevant Web pages from the index of banned or at least be a whole lot further back.

Professional search engine optimization (SEO)for business websites.

For webmasters, it obviously means the meltdown, if they - consciously or unconsciously - produce such duplicate text content (duplicate content). It is therefore important to know, such as duplicate content created and how they can avoid the run-up already.

We assume that you have written the text content of your website itself and not copied from another website. If so, you should delete the relevant text content quickly, otherwise sensitive threaten legal action (warning letters, lawsuits, etc.). On the other hand, you also need to investigate your part, if another webmaster has copied text content of your page. You simply copy any passage out of your text and give them up with quotes in the search. There is nothing you can at least assume that nobody is using copied texts from your site in search engine index.

Next step: Check if the domain of your site at various locations on the Internet is accessible. It might look as follows:

http://yoursite.com

http://www.yoursite.com

http://www-iyoursite.com/index.html

If this is the case, there is a risk of producing side internally duplicate content. The workaround is to set up a permanent redirect using the htaccess file. You put on your web server to a text file named " htaccess. and fill them with the following content ":

(RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}

redirect 301 / http://yoursite.com/)

A problem could also arise from dynamic URLs. This is particularly the case if your website is written in PHP and "speaking" the URL's of the cryptic notation to convert PHP. If so, you ensure that old or unneeded sites are immediately removed from the server, and finally only the new URL's are available.

Next point problem: Have you moved recently to a new domain with your web server? Then duplicate content could also arise by the old server automatically linked with the corresponding IP address to the new. Solve the problem by deleting the old server or switch off completely.

If you follow these tips and tricks that might double the risk of producing content to be vanishingly small. They create the best possible conditions, that your website is positioned as closely as possible in the search results.