{"id":8,"date":"2011-04-06T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freewebsitetemplatez.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2011-04-06T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:42:29","slug":"how-to-write-effective-meta-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freewebsitetemplatez.com\/blog\/web-development\/how-to-write-effective-meta-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Write Effective Meta Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta tags are elements used to provide structural information about a webpage. These elements are very important to webmasters because they assist in helping your website to be listed by search engines. When designing your website, you will find that you have several WebPages in your site. Each web page has to be described appropriately when submitting your sites to search engines.<br \/>\nHowever, it is important to realize which part of the site is the most significant. There are parts within the site which are not as important as others and it would be useless to put Metatags in these parts. Homepage is the most important part of any website and concentrating on this field would be very useful. This particular page should have more Meta tags than any other site in which you may wish to include Metatags. For the success your website, you should add Metatags to the homepage first and the rest of the pages later. Search engine are very critical in analysing your website, your Metatags and the keywords used to describe your site before indexing is done.<br \/>\nMeta tags are inserted by going to your webpage\u2019s HTML and entering the relevant code on the HEAD. However, this is dependent on the program used. Programs like Netscape have Meta tags function within the program and are used to insert Metatags. There is an option to insert keywords and description of your site through HTML. Claris is another program that allows you to edit your Metatags. One of the major advantages of this program is that you can edit your entire HTML. However, you should be careful because Claris is capable of inserting extra elements in your site. Some of these elements can be hazardous because they can make your site dysfunctional.<br \/>\nDescription sentence should be between 100 and 125 characters enclosed with quotation marks. You should provide a description that fits your title and restates the benefit of the site. You should always advice your clients where to read, where to go and the means of getting to the target site for more information. Even if your clients are unable to access information from your site through search engines, they will be able to get all the data they need. However, you should choose the right keywords so that your potential clients can get you easily through search engines. It would be hard for clients to get to your site through other means other than search engines. Think critically of the keywords that will help visitors to get to your website. Be as specific as possible when choosing and entering keywords. You have to take into consideration the keyword styles and formats that you will use to enter the words.<br \/>\nAlways be careful when entering Metatags to avoid any calls for changes in future. Metatags are seldom changed because frequent changes would lead to decline in search engine rankings. This is because search engines look for programs that are stable; not changed frequently. Keywords in the homepage are not as specific compared to individual WebPages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta tags are elements used to provide structural information about a webpage. These elements are very important to webmasters because they assist in helping your website to be listed by search engines. When designing your website, you will find that you have several WebPages in your site. 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