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Free SEO Meta Tag Builder / Meta Tag Generator Tool

Fact: All major search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Scrub The Web, MSN Bing and others utilize Meta Tags!

If you're visiting search engine optimization sites that claim Meta Tags including the Meta Description are not used by the major search engines, then that search engine optimization site should be avoided. Don't take our word for it, visit Open Window IconGoogle™ or Open Window IconYahoo!® and see what they have to say about Meta Tag optimization.

Did you know? All our SEO tools work with pages written in virtually any language (Smoke Signals and Braille are not yet supported).

What are Meta Tags & Titles and Why do I Need Them?

Titles & Meta Tags are special Tags that are inserted into your Web page and are often not directly visible to your visitors. The main purpose of Title & Meta Tags is to help search engines understand, catalog and categorize your Web page so those looking for your products or services can find you. There are many different types of Meta Tags that can be used for many different purposes. Here we will discuss the main ones used for search engine optimization.

Every Web page should have a Title. Think of this like the Title of a book. Would you read or could you find a book without a Title? The Meta Description and Meta Keywords describes what the Web page is about and what keywords might be used to find the page. This is similar to the preface or back cover of a book and are what we call the "attention getters". Other important search engine Meta Tags would include the Meta Charset and Meta Language Tags. These help search engines read and understand your Web page.

When Title and Meta Tags are properly optimized, you can have more control over what is displayed in search results and influence how people can find you in search engines. When Title and Meta Tags are not properly optimized, search engines will have to guess all this and that will not help with your search engine traffic.

Did you know our Member's Meta Tag Builder can automatically insert your Title & Meta Tags into your Web page's (X)HTML for you? If you would like to use the Member's Meta Tag Builder, create a Member Account.

How Do I Use Title & Meta Tags?

After creating your new Title and Meta Tags with this program, we provide additional instructions on how to install them on your Web page. In short, Meta Tags MUST be placed between your opening <head> and closing </head> Tags. In addition, all Web pages MUST contain both the opening <html> and closing </html> Tags to be considered robot friendly HTML documents. Below is a sample of Meta Tag usage (highlighted in red) and the use of the Title Tag (highlighted in green). Additional instructions will follow the Meta Tag Builder results:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <- at the top of the page (yours could be different)
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Your Web Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">
<meta name="description" content="Your description">
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1 keyword2">
</head>
<body>
The viewable content of your Web page.
</body>
</html> <- at the bottom of the page

How Do I Create Title & Meta Tags?

Use the Meta Tag Generator form below to generate your "robot friendly" Title and Meta Tags. When it comes to search engines there are five major Tags that are important. These Tags will be created for you after you complete the form below:

Title Tag: required

Enter a Title for your Web page. Think of this like the Title of a book. Be specific and don't write something like "Home Page".

Tip: The 60 character limit for the Title Tag is because some search engines will only display a maximum of 60 characters of text for the Title in their search results. Keeping your Title Tag under 60 characters helps insure your Title makes sense in the search results. Be smart and make sure your Title is not chopped up.

Meta Charset:

Browsers and many search engines use the Meta Charset to determine how to translate the bytes in the document into characters on the screen.

It is now recommended to always use this Meta Tag, even with the previously-default charset iso-8859-1. Failure to do so may cause display problems where, for instance, the document uses utf-8 punctuation characters but is displayed in ISO or ASCII charset. For more information visit Open Window to Visithttp://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html.

Please select your Meta Charset from the list below. If you are not sure which Meta Charset to select, simply select one that matches your language. Hint: The majority of English spoken Web pages created with Windows would select English - windows-1252, but virtually any English one listed below will usually work just fine.

<- if two options are available we suggest you try the first one

Document Language:

Please select the actual language(s) your page is written in (you may select more than one):

Meta Description Tag: required

Enter a description for your Web page. A maximum of 150 characters is suggested for this Tag. You get one chance to capture the attention of those viewing your description. Pages with powerful Titles and a short description can pull in a lot of traffic from search engines if constructed properly.

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Tip: The 150 character limit for the Meta Description Tag is because some search engines will only display a maximum of 150 characters of text for the description in their search results. Keeping your Meta Description Tag under 150 characters helps insure your description makes sense in the search results. Be smart and make sure your Meta Description is not chopped up.

Meta Keywords Tag:

You are not required to enter anything into the Meta Keywords text box below. Most search engines these days ignore the Meta Keywords. However, if you provide words in the Meta Keywords Tag that also appear in the viewable part of your Web page, the Meta Keywords Tag may help your rankings with some search engines.

Enter keywords and keyword phrases for your Web page. Separate each keyword or keyword phrase by a comma and then a space (ie., keyword, keyword phrase, keyword, etc.). A maximum of 874 characters is allowed for this Tag, but we wouldn't recommend you use that many or you can suffer from keyword saturation, or even be labeled as a keyword spammer. Just a few highly targeted keyword phrases will usually do the trick. It is also recommended you only include words here that can also be found in the viewable part of the Web page.

- Note - If you're not sure what keywords to use, try Wordtracker's keyword tool.

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