HTML-Meta-Tags The Complete Reference

A collection of complete HTML meta tags for the developers

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Basic HTML Meta Tags

###charset

This tag is used to define the charset

Example: 
	<meta charset='UTF-8'>

###keywords

This tag is used specify the keywords for the search engines to identify the content

Example:
	<meta name='keywords' content='programming meta tags complete reference'>

description

This tag is used to give brief description about the page, google(search engine(s)) uses this well enough to show the page in searched results pretty.

Example:
	<meta name='description' content='pretty nice overview of the page in few words'>

subject

This is subject of the website

Example: 
	<meta name="subject" content="Website's subject">

copyright

Shows copyrights holder of the content

Example:
	<meta name="copyright" content="copyright holder">

language

Explains in which language your website is, this tag declares language in which document is being indexed.

Example: 
	<meta name="language" content="EN">
	<meta name="language" content="spanish">

robots

POSSIBLE VALUES:

• index

• noindex

• follow

• nofollow

  Using this tag you can tell the search engines like google and yahoo whether you want you pages to be indexed or not. You can use robots.txt instead or both

Examples:

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX, FOLLOW">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> 
<meta name="robots" content="all"/>
    <meta name="robots" content="noodp,nooydir" id="robots">

revised

Example:

<meta name='revised' content='Sunday, June 18th, 2015, 5:15 pm'>

abstract

This tag is used to describe the page in abstract

<meta name='abstract' content='About meta tags'>

topic

Example:

<meta name='topic' content='Meta Tags'>

summary

This tag is used to give the brief summary about the page

Example:

<meta name='summary' content=''> 

Classification

This tag is used to describe in which the page/site comes under

Exmaple:

<meta name="Classification" content="Portal">

author

This tag is used to specify the author

Example:

<meta name="author" content="name <[email protected]>">

Designer

Example:

<meta name="designer" content="">

reply-to

This tag is used to specify the email address of the person who is responsible for the web site. Usually the webmaster email address

Example:

<meta name="reply-to" content="[email protected]">

revist-after

It tells the sipder/crawler that, come back after this much time to index this page again

Example:

<meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days">

Windows

msapplication-TileColor

Example

msapplication-TileImage

<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="http://domain.com/image/path"/>

Advanced/ http-equiv meta tags

http-equiv meta tags are used to define the http headers and other data

Examples

<meta http-equiv="Set-Cookie" content="id=2kadi23974dkfajdsl; 
               path=/; expires=Thursday, 20-May-15 00:15:00 GMT">

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">

x-dns-prefetch-control

With this meta tag, browser proactively performs domain name resolution on both links that the user may choose to follow as well as URLs for items referenced by the document, including images, CSS, javaScript.

Example

Who is using *tumblr.com

Find more at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Controlling_DNS_prefetching

SITE SPECIFIC

PINTEREST (pinterest.com)

p:domain_verify

This tag is used to verify pinterest account

Example

External Resources

• WHATWG META tags reference

Search engien to find who else is using what kind of META TAGS

Following are the search engine which are capable of searching source code

• Meanpath
• Nerdydata
• Globalogiq.com
• commoncrawl.org