Free Meta Tag Generators
Jul 1st, 2008 by admin
Whilst doing some keyword research the other day, I noticed that “free meta tag generators” is a very popular search term each month … so if you’ve found this post via the search engines, I’ve written it especially for you!
Before I give you the urls for some free meta tag generators, let’s discuss what “meta tags” are and why you should use them …
Meta Tags
Meta tags are used by some search engines to determine page relevancy. Basically, meta tags take the form of hidden HTML code that detail to the search engine spiders specific information on your page’s keywords and page description.
In the early days of the internet, marketers would stuff their meta tags with hundreds of keywords to improve their page rankings. As the major search engines became wise to these “spammy” methods, they changed their algorithms accordingly to exclude pages with stuffed meta tags, and in general reduced the importance previously given to meta tags.
Even though the importance of meta tags for ranking purposes is not what it once was, some engines still apportion some weighting to them, and therefore you should still use them in all the pages you generate. In general, it’s good practice to keep your meta keywords tag below 1,024 characters long and your meta description tag below 150 characters.
You need to put some time and thought in to your meta description tags in particular, not for ranking purposes specifically, but because a lot of the search engines use your meta description in their search engine results pages (serps). You therefore need to make your description inviting to the searcher so that they click on your site … there is no point in optimising your pages and getting them onto page one of Google if nobody actually clicks on your link!
There are a bunch of sites offering “free meta tag generators” on the web. Basically these generators take the effort out of creating the required html code, you just input your keywords and the code is generated for you to copy and paste into your page’s source code.
Here are a couple of sites that offer “free meta tag generators:
http://www.free-webmaster-tools.com/Meta-Tag-Generator.htm
http://www.submitexpress.com/metatags.html
I hope you found this info on meta tags useful …
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