Adding Meta Tags to Site
Meta Tags are very useful in classifying and uniquely identifying your site among thousands of other sites in the web. Search engines get first hand information from the Meta tag of a site. Meta tags allow you to classify your site with keywords related to your site. From the Meta tag a site’s targeted audience, author’s name, content of the site, copyright of the site, the language of the site content, robots information (regarding indexing pages) can be found out.
In order to get your site indexed by major search engines, Meta tags play a vital role. Since Meta data remains at the top of the page source, they get crawled ahead of other contents. The bigger Search engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo identifies the content, analyses the keywords and produces the results using the weaving of links between sites. But not all search engines work that way. Many search engines still rely upon the Meta data to identify the site and its contents.
SEO Chat provides a nice easy to use Advanced Meta Tag Generator. It generates the Meta tag code automatically when we input the details about our site. Remember, when you add the Meta tag code do not delete the previous Meta tag (if already there). Just add the lines of code that is not available in your source. You can also add this tool to your own site.
Some say that Meta Tags do not matter in the recent days as search engines get wiser. But still if you want your site to be projected properly Meta Tags holds the key.