What are Meta Tags ? How to insert these

People usually start new blog or website and they spend most of their time in order to do posting on the blog or to share their blog post to get traffic instantly.Unfortunately they are unaware of the tactics of search engine optimization so they usually fail to receive traffic directly from search engine like Google or yahoo etc.
Search engine wants from the user to tell it about your blog content so it can index your blog content.It is never possible until and unless you insert meta tags in your blog.When you enter these tags search engine will be able to know about your blog content.So user must be aware of  Meta tags.They are being used by every blogger in order to increase the traffic ratio.

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What are Meta Tags ?

Many of the people often don't know about these tags and they are unable to insert these tags in blog html coding to tell the search engine about their content of the Blog or website.Basically meta tags are those useful tags which helps the search engine to know about your blog content.They are used for describing the content of your webpages.These are very helpful for search engines and the main thing is that they do not show in your blog and they are only for search engines.We can also describe our website's keywords , description and also Author name by using these tags. 

Syntax :

<meta name='keywords' content='your blog's keywords'>

<meta name='description' content='description about your blog in 140 character'>


How to insert Meta tags ?

To insert meta tags blog coding is always a headache but now your problem will be solved very easily.Just follow the simple steps to add above syntax in your html coding.So if you are using interface like blogger.com then move to template > HTML .Right under head tag place the space and enter the above syntax there.You have to change your blog keywords according to your blog and also change the description of your blog.It should be limited in 140 characters.
Or if you are using any other interface just like wordpress or joomla , So you will have to open HTML file and place that coding the same as above i have mentioned.

Some Other Meta Tags :

Here are some other tags which are also very important to tell the search engine about your blog's author name , all webpages of your blog and your plate form which you are using like blogger ,wordpress or joomla etc.To insert these meta tags you will have to enter these tags in the <head> section in your HTML coding file.The process is just the same like to enter meta tags which i have also discussed above.

 <meta content='author name' name='author'/>

    <meta content='your blog plate form' name='generator'/>

    <meta content='all' name='robots'/>
    

Conclusion :

I hope after reading an article you are helpful and you will be able to insert these tags in your HTML file in order to generate more traffic directly from Google and other search engines.If you have any difficulty you can ask to us freely so that we can help you.Stay tuned and be happy :)



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Can you post an example using real key words and a description?

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Yes veronica ,It is too much easy as i have mentioned below :)


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I'm really trying to learn all these technicalities of blogging. It's tough for the non techie like me but I'm learning. Thanks to posts like these.

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