How many types of Meta Tags are there in SEO

[marisalewis24]

How many types of Meta Tags are there in SEO and what are their characters limits?

[infoseair]

Read this Link: http://www.iacquire.com/blog/18-meta-tags-every-webpage-should-have-in-2013

Hope you Helps ..

[sadianisar]

In SEO, there are several meta tags which are:

Meta description
Meta keyword
Meta content
Meta title
Meta authors
Meta robots etc.

But Meta description and Meta keywords are one of the most important Meta tags in SEO.

[RH-Calvin]

A meta tag is a tag (that is, a coding statement) in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes some aspect of the contents of a Web page. There are many meta tags and html-tags and obviously they don't all influence the search result.

[jayashree-marg]

There are four major types of meta tags used in general. They are:
- Meta Keywords Attribute
- Title Tag
- Meta Description Attribute
- Meta Robots Attribute

[nancy07]

Meta tags are snippets of text that describe a page's content; the meta tags don't appear on the page itself, but only in the page's code.

Some important meta tags that one must use in the web page are:

1. Title Tag: <title>The title of the Page</title> (Unique title for your page)
Limit: Google typically displays the first 50-60 characters of a title tag

2. Description Tag: <meta name = "Description" Content="Description of the Page">
Limit: Roughly 155 Characters

3. Keyword Tag: <meta name="Keyword" Content="Your Keywords">

[mani ge3e]

<meta name="Keyword" Content="Your Keywords">

According to Google they didn't look at meta keywords then you will be surprised that why I am mentioning it here. It is here because 'Yahoo' search still use these in their SERP. So don't miss it because still have 28% search share so why miss these 28%.

4. Robots Tag: <meta name="robots" Content="......, ......">
The valid values for Robots Meta Tags 'Content' attribute are: "INDEX", "NOINDEX", "FOLLOW", "NOFOLLOW".
Examples are:

META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, FOLLOW”
META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”INDEX, NOFOLLOW”
META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”
META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOARCHIVE”
META NAME=”GOOGLEBOT” CONTENT=”NOSNIPPET”

NOINDEX – prevents the page from being included in the index.
NOFOLLOW – prevents Googlebot from following any links on the page. (Note that this is different from the link-level NOFOLLOW attribute, which prevents Googlebot from following an individual link.)
NOARCHIVE – prevents a cached copy of this page from being available in the search results.
NOSNIPPET – prevents a description from appearing below the page in the search results, as well as prevents caching of the page.
NOODP – blocks the Open Directory Project description of the page from being used in the description that appears below the page in the search results.
NONE – equivalent to “NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”.


For more you can visit Meta tags that Google understands

Hope this will help.
Written Aug 31, 2015 · View Upvotes
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[daikaads]

Types of Meta Tags are as follows,

meta name description
meta name keywords
meta name robots
meta name revisit-after
meta name abstract
meta name author
meta name contact
meta name copyright
meta name distribution
meta name expires
meta name generator
meta name googlebot
meta name language

[KevinJohnson1]

How many types of Meta Tags are there in SEO and what are their characters limits?

Here are the most important Meta Tags, required in SEO.

<title>title</title>
Title is the first phrase you see as a search result.

<meta name="description" content="your description here">
Description of your website.

<meta name="keywords" content="words">
Most important word to use on specific page.

<meta name="robots" content="selection">
Allows robots to crawl your website.

<meta name="revisit-after" content="period">
How often do you want the spiders to come back and index your website again.

In above list, Title, description and robots are important meta tags. Where Title have 50-60 character limit, and description have 150-160 character limits.

[SD Groupkol]

Nice Share keep it up.

[Goldysoni]

There are four major types of meta tags used in general. They are:
- Description tag
- Title tag
- keyword tag
- Robot tag

[Aegissoftwares]

There are different types of meta tags. But most important are title and description meta tag. So create a title & description unique for your website. Don't copy title and description from other site other wise google will penalize your site and it will definitely harm your websites ranking.

[Liyanscom3]

Very Useful Information.
Thanks For Sharing.

[sharmaroshni]

There are 14 Meta tags are:
1. Description Meta Tag
2. Generator Meta Tag
3. Keywords Meta Tag
4. Revisit-After Meta Tag
5. Robots Meta Tag
6. Content-Type Meta Tag
7. No-Cache Meta Tag
8. Audience Meta Tag
9. Author Meta Tag
10. Content-Language Meta Tag
11. Page-Topic Meta Tag
12. Page-Type Meta Tag
13. Prog Id Meta Tag
14. Publisher Meta Tag