Types of meta tag

[travelindia86]

Hi,
How many types of meta tags ?

[Amy.Sarin]

There are many title tags but more useful meta tags are title and description tags since it brief SE’s about your website. SE’s use your title and description to show a snippet in search results.
Here’s more information on meta tags
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=79812

[bryanbell]

Number of Meta tags available with its different uses but generally people are aware about only Meta description and Meta keywords.

Check this link for different Meta tags with its use http://online-seo-information.blogsp...meta-tags.html

[seoservices]

Meta keywords : A list of descriptive wordsthat identifies thecontent of a web page. Keywordsshould be lowercase andseparated by commas with nospaces after the commas.Keywords can includephrases such as "siteanalysis".

Meta Description : A single sentence thatdescribes the content ofthe page. This is generallywhat a person will readwhen they are looking at alist of matches to theirsearch.

Meta Owner : The company or person who ownsthe web page.

Meta Author : The person who created the webpage.

Meta Distribution : Used to indicate global versuslocal pages. Use globalfor major entry points toyour site(s). Use localfor local indexes.

Meta Copyright : Copyright information.

Meta HTTP-EQUIV : More complex processinginstructions.

Meta Revisit-after : How long you would like asearch engine to waitbefore looking at your webpage again.

Meta Expires : When the content will beoutdated..

Meta reply-to : E-mail address to send messagesabout the page to.

Meta Rating : The age level of the intendedaudience. Standard entriesare: General, Mature,Restricted, 14years.

Meta Refresh : Sets an auto load for yourpage. This can be used toreload your entire page,to load a new page, or toload an image or soundafter a specified time.The time is specified inseconds.

Meta Content-Language : What language your document iswritten in. US English isidentified as en-us.

Meta Content-Type : What code the site is writtenin, such as html/text.

[pavankumar]

hi..
there are many types of meta tags:-

Meta keywords
Meta description
Mata author
Meta owner
Meta copyright.etc

[heryjonsion]

Basic types of meta pages are as follow :-

(1) Meta copyright.
(2) Meta keywords.
(3) Meta description.
(4) Meta distribution.
(5) Meta generator.