Robots, also known as spiders, are automated mechanisms that
spider your site, or search your site on how to categorize the
information you submitted to the search engine. Typically, a website
owner would submit the main page and the robots would visit your site
and collect all subpages and related links from your main page.
However, this tag enables you to control which pages you would like
spidered, and which to ignore. For instance, certain webpages and
directories (ie: CGI Scripts) you may not want indexed in the search
engines. Using the robots tag, you can define which pages to follow,
which to index and which to ignore completely.
This is an optional tag which instructs the page crawler/search engine
to do what with your page. Select the appropriate option from the drop
down list. "Index this page and follow all links" is preferred over all the
options.
4. Refresh rate in seconds (Optional)
The Refresh Tag defines the number of seconds before refreshing
your webpage
The refresh META tag is used as a way to redirect or refresh users to
another webpage after X number of seconds. This META tag is often
used as a "bridge" page which is accessed first by users and are
then redirected to another webpage. Some search engines
discourage this type of META tag because it opens opportunity for
users to spam search engines with similar pages which all lead to the
same page. In addition, this also makes many of the search engines
databases cluttered with irrelevant and multiple versions of the same
data.
5. Copyright line (Optional)
The Copyright Tag defines any copyright information about the
document
The copyright META tag defines any copyright statements you wish to
disclose about your webpage documents. You may wish to indicate
any trademark names, patent numbers, copyright or other information
which you want to publicly disclose as your intellectual property. The
Copyright META tag is a freeform copyright statement which
conforms to other META tag standards.
6. Author (Optional)
The Author Tag declares who is the author of the document
The author META tag defines the name of the author of the document
being read. This tag is not widely supported but is recognized as part
of the META Tag standard. Supported data formats include the name,
email address of the webmaster, company name or Internet address
(URL). The most common format is to insert the name of the person or
organization and a contact email address. For eg.: Webmaster
(webmaster@easycreate.com)
7. Generator (Optional)
This option is used to mention the tool you have used to create the
page.
8. Language (Optional)
The Language Tag defines the language used on your webpage
The Language META tag declares to users the natural language of
the document being indexed. Search engines which index websites
based on language often read this tag to determine which
language(s) is supported. This tag is particularly useful for non-english
and multiple language websites.
9. Search engines revisit rate in days(Optional)
The Revisit Tag defines how many days the search engine should
revisit your webpage
The Revisit META tag defines how often a search engine or spider
should come to your website for re-indexing. Often this tag is used for
websites that change their content often and on a regular basis. This
tag can also be beneficial in boosting your rankings if search engines
display results based on the most recent submissions.
Enter the required information and optional information if required. The optional
items should be checked to be included in the meta tags. After you have done with
entering all these information, click on 'Generate Tags' button. In the resultant page
your META tags are displayed in a text area. Copy these meta tags and add to the
head section of each and every page if required.
Meta Tag Analyzer
Meta Tag Analyzer can be used for analyzing the meta tags currently present in a
site. You can see for yourself what all meta tags are used in the site being analyzed
and using the Meta Tag Generator, create a new set of meta tags and incorporate
in your pages and thus make your page more search engine friendly.
Go to Promotion Manager. Click on 'Meta Tag Analyzer'. Now you are asked to
enter the url of the site being analyzed. After entering the url, click on 'Get Tag'
button. As a result you are shown the meta tags of the site if any.