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Business SEO Basics Better SEO Through Code How Code Impacts SEO

Brandon Heng
Brandon Heng
6,734 Points
Posted by Brandon Heng
Brandon Heng
6,734 Points

Meta Tags

How does Meta Tags impact SEO? Google says don't don't use Meta Tags at all, since it's so easily abused.

1 Answer

Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points
Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
16,488 Points

Meta tags are the documents meta data example html <meta charset="UTF-8"> this is telling the browser that the document has a character set of UCS Transformation Format—8-bit (had to get that bit off wikipedia". Here is a link that explains this more in depth about meta tags and robots.txt, hope this has been of some use to you I am still learning.

Link: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html (for robots)

Link: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en (for google meta tags)

Link http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/getting-started-checklist-66a806de (bing getting started checklist)

Kindest Regards,

Richard Duffy.