Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Meta Tag Examples:


Specifying Keywords:
We specify keywords which will be used by the search engine to search a web page. So using following tag you can specify important keywords related to your page.
<head>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”HTML, meta tags, metadata” />
</head>

Document Description:
This is again important information and many search engine use this information as well while searching a web page. So you should give an appropriate description of the page.
<head>
<meta name=”description” content=”Learn about Meta Tags.” />
</head>

Document Revision date:
This information tells about last time was updated.
<head>
<meta name=”revised” content=”HTMLLearning, 6/7/2012” />
</head>

Document Refreshing:
You can specify  a duration after which your web page will keep refreshing. If you want your page keep refreshing after every 10 seconds then use the following syntax.
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”10” />
</head>

Page Redirection:
You can specify a page redirection using Meta Tag. Following is an example of redirecting current page to another page. You can specify a duration after which page will be redirected.
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”10; url=http://codearms.blogspot.com”/>
</head>

Setting Cookies:
You can use Meta Tag to store cookies on client side later information can be used by then Web Server to track a site visitor.
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”cookie” content=”userid=xyz;
Expires=Wednesday, 08-Aug-2012  23:59:59 GMT;” />
</head>

If you do not include the expirtion date and time, the cookie is considered a session cookie and will be deleted when the user exits the browser.

Setting Author name :
You can set an author name in a web page using Meta Tag.
<head>
<meta name=”author” content=”Codearmster”>
</head>

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