In this topic we’ll discuss about meta tags, Why meta tags important why you should use proper meta tags on your website so that your website could index on search engine in proper way.
What is meta tags?
Meta tags can be used to provide information to all sorts of clients, they provide information such as who created the page, how often it is updated, what the page is about, and which keywords represent the page’s content. Meta tags are added to the
section of your HTML page and generally look like this:
Most common meta tags for search engines like google, yahoo etc
Above are the most common recommended meta tags by google, If you want to display your website pages in google search in proper manner.
In the above image you can see google search result with formatted article with title and meta tags.
Now if you want to share your page on facebook, twitter and google plus then you must include some social meta tags on your page so that at the time of sharing page, Social website can understand that what most important content of the page have to share
you can also reefer this tutorial to Integrate facebook like and share button on your website
Now some most important social meta tags.
Social meta tags for facebook
Use facebook debugger tool to validate meta information.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Social meta tags for twitter
Before adding these twitter social tags don’t forget to validate your website from twitter
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator
Social meta tags for google plus
Use google structured data testing tool to check meta tags are working properly or not.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
Hope this tutorial will help you to understand commonly used and social meta tags.
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