Meta Charset Tag
The meta charset tag, specifically meta charset=”UTF-8″>, is more closely related to web development and ensuring that a web page has the proper character encoding than it is to SEO (search engine optimization). But by ensuring that material is rendered correctly, which can effect user experience and search engine crawling, it indirectly affects SEO.
Syntax:
HTML
< head > < meta charset = "UTF-8" > <!-- Other meta tags, title, and links go here --> </ head > |
10 Most Important HTML Meta Tags for SEO
SEO or Search Engine Optimization refers to the techniques and practices for the process of improving the visibility and ranking of a web page in the result of the search engine. One of the methods for SEO is to add additional information about the webpage in the meta tag of the HTML document.
Meta tags are the information added in the HTML document called “metadata” This is not visible in the output to the user but it provides the information in the background to the search engines or other web services. The meta tag is added in the <head> section of the document.
Most Important Meta Tags for SEO
- 1. Meta Title Tag
- 2. Meta Description Tag
- 3. Meta Heading Tags (H1-H6)
- 4. Meta keyword Tag
- 5. Meta Robots Meta Tag
- 6. Meta Viewport Tag
- 7. Meta Canonical Tag
- 8. Meta Hreflang Tag
- 9. Meta Charset Tag
- 10. Meta Author Tag