Meta tags describe the contents of a web page. Meta Tags help search engine to catalog and categorize the contents of the web page.The title of the web page also helps search engines to determine the content of the website.

The important ones are :-

Title Tag

Title Tag appears as the Title of the web Page. Many Search Engines consider Title as most important part in their ranking criteria. A web page with a keyword in title ranks higher than the keyword used in the body text alone.

Description Tag

The meta tag should be short, informative and relevant to the site. When listed in the search results, the contents of Meta description tag are displayed right below the title of the page. This persuades people to click on the link page when found in the search engine.

Keyword Tag

This tag contains words and search phrases relevant to the page. These words can be separated by commas or space.

Robots Tag

The Meta robots tag gives command to any search engine spiders on how to treat the page.The instruction to the web robots can be FOLLOW, INDEX, NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW. The INDEX statement instructs the spider to add the page to the search engine's index and the FOLLOW statement instructs the spider to follow any links it finds on the page.

Rating Tag

The rating is a useful method for search engine spiders to determine the level of access appropriate for the associated Web page.

Meta Tag Analyzer,

Meta tag Analyzer offers instant, online report of a website's Meta Tags. Checks for Title, Keywords, Description, Robots & Author Tag & their relevancy with the page content.