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June 22nd, 2010, 11:22 PM

Smarty12

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Meta tags and SEO

Check out Little facts about meta tags ..

1) What is the Maximum length for a Meta Title? About 65-68 characters, though Google sometimes shows up to 72.

2) What is the Maximum length for a Meta Description? I believe Google displays around 160 characters, Yahoo, up to 165 and MSN as many as 200 or more.

3) How many keywords can be included in the Meta Keywords? No more than 250 characters. Do I get extra credit for pointing out that Google doesn't look at this tag?

4) Every word in this tag MUST appear somewhere in the body text. If not, it can be penalized for irrelevance. Is that really true.? Well, penalized is probably the wrong word. Note that your sentence says it can be penalized. It, we presume, refers to the keyword, not to the website. This line appears in so many "guides" to SEO ... but really, it's not a penalty. It would be better to suggest that if it's not in the page, the keyword will be ignored.

5) what would be the keyword density in the body text? There is an ongoing argument among SEOs about keyword density. There is no magic number, though I will predict that you will be offered a range of 3-5% and some will say 2-7% is the right density. Forget that. Write for readability and cover your topic thoroughly and the keywords will be in the right ratio. Promise. Avoid keyword stuffing and you will be fine!

6) which font size we need to use for H1, H2, H3 Keywords? In early HTML heading tags (h1-h6) were used to control the size of the headings. Inline style and CSS have completely taken over that task. Use the size that looks right for your layout; size doesn't matter in SEO and heading tags.

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July 8th, 2010, 04:34 AM

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These are the Main elements we have to consider in SEO are
• Start with Keyword Analysis and pick matching Keywords
• Meta tags:
• H1 tags:-we have to Prepare H1 tags with Keyword Stuffed
• Internal Linking strategy
i. Identify key pages to link from
ii. Identify key pages to link to (i.e. recipient pages)
iii. Identify current broken link inventory using tools
• Track target Keywords
• Keyword Density
• Use Keywords in anchor text
• Content Optimization:-with respect to Finalized Keywords
• Usability and accessibility:-Is the site is easy to Accessed by the User.

February 8th, 2013, 07:38 AM

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Here, I would like to ask one question i.e., If we change meta tags (title, meta description, meta keywords) after every six months , It is bad or good by search engine perspective.

Can it hurts our website ranking in SERP pages or helps in rank at high position?

February 21st, 2013, 01:00 AM

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It is bad or good by search engine perspective.

February 21st, 2013, 05:56 AM

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Meta tags give search engines more information about a web page. Understanding how to use Meta tags can be helpful. Meta tags can be found in the <head> element of a web page. I’ve been asked in the past if Meta tags can be placed within the <body> of a page, but its best not to do this. By putting Meta tags in the body, some browsers may not recognize them and you’re essentially creating invalid markup.