A brief study of SEO meta tags.

Being a newbie in the business of tech and working as a web developer you might, at first believe that the head tag should house the following tags;

Well, with the technology evolution and fast growth rate. More and more people are seeking an online presence and as such build Apps and websites.

So what I’m saying or trying to point out is, as a web developer taking SEO into consideration is very key in today’s world of technology.

So as a web developer how do I make the site that I build SEO optimize and all?

Well for this post we will be talking about the meta tags and how there help achieve that.

The meta tags are used to hold information about the website but for this article, we will be focusing on name and content attributes as they are the basic attribute needed for SEO.

The name attribute holds the name of the info the meta tag is holding while content holds the datils of that info.

Here it tells us that the meta tag is giving us info about keywords and the kind of keywords associated with the site. So we will be talking about some of the value of the name attribute(s) and their corresponding content value .

The description value is used to hold info about the description of the site. Here, in 150 words the site is described and help give information about what its about to the search engines and WebCrawler.

The keyword values hold keywords associated with the site. Like an e-commerce site would have words like “sales, deals, price, goods”. This helps place sites higher when they are been searched for online.

The author value indicates that the meta is indicating the author of the site and their email.

This is used to inform the browser to refresh every 30 seconds.

Now through OpenGraph meta tags, we are able to make a shared link to become more interactive on a social platform like Facebook, twitter, .e.t.c as they get displayed like the image above. This is possible as the crawlers of these social platforms look out for the OpenGraph meta tag and display according to their design specifications.

Some of the basic required tags of OpenGraph meta tags are

To achieve the image above the values would be

Twitter has its own meta tags too and there are similar to they OpenGraph.

Nevertheless, Twitter still uses OpenGraph alongside its own.

Well, that will be all for this article at least. For further readings and reference you can checkout

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