Tired of making all the necessary updates to your site? Let us make      them for you.     Click here What are meta tags all about and can they help my site? Meta Tags are elements of an webpage that are used by search engines to index a site. Most meta tags are included within the 'header' section of a website and the most important tags are the title, description and keyword tags. Rules used by different search engines govern how such tags are used, how many characters they should contain, and how they should be formatted. Keywords <meta name="keywords" content="web, design, development, sarasota, etc..."> Search engines categorize your web site based on the keywords it finds in your web pages. When someone searches (on a search engine such as Google, for example), for those same keywords, your web site may pop up in the list, if it has a good page rank. Description <meta name="description" content="Professional Web Designs is a leading Sarasota Web Design Firm specializing in Custom Web Designs, Web Hosting, Web Marketing, web promotion and Search Engine Optimization."> The above description tag gives the search engines a 'description' of the web site or specific web page. Author <meta name="author" content="John Smith"> This META tag tells us the author of the web page. Creator <meta name="creator" content="Professional Web Designs - Sarasota Web Design Firm"> This META tag tells us the creator of the web page. Publisher <meta name="publisher" content="Professional Web Designs"> The Meta Tag mentions the Publisher of the site. Copyright <meta name="copyright" content="©2006 Prfessional Web Designs"> The Meta Tag mentions the copyright of the site. Revisit-after <meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days"> This tag tells the search engine robots how often to recrawl the site or page. Rating <meta name="rating" content="General"> This tag is used to rate your site's audience appropriateness. Options include general, restricted and mature. Classification <meta name="classification" content="Sarasota Web Design"> This tag is used to classify your page. Examples include sports, music, religion, etc... Distribution <meta name="distribution" content="Global"> You may enter global or local. If it is set to local, the Search Engines will not index the page. Audience <meta name="audience" content="all"> This tag defines the audience of the site. Language <meta name="language" content="English"> This META tag tells the browser that this page is in English. The browser will make adjustments for this language so that the page is displayed properly. Robot Tags <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> This META tag tells the search engines to index all pages within the site. Googlebot Tag <meta name="googlebot" content="archive"> This META tag tells Google to archive all pages within the site.