Meta Tags Guidelines

Tuesday, April 6. 2010

By: Gina
When you want to increase search engine traffic to your website your first plan of action should be making sure your meta tags are set up properly. Â Meta Tags are very important to bringing in targeted search engine traffic to your website. This doesn’t cost you any money and is a SEO (search engine optimization) technique that you can do yourself.

When you are setting up the meta tags on each your web pages, following are some guidelines to tell you how many characters and keywords you can use inside of each meta tag:

- This is the title meta tag. It should be a MAX 65 characters in length.
- Recommended: site title + 3-5 descriptive keywords.

- This is the description meta tag. It should be a MAX of 165 characters in length.
- Recommended: should contain one or two of you keyword/keyword phrases.

- This is the description meta tag. It should be a MAX of 255 characters in length.
- Recommended: use 10 words, don’t list your keyword more than 3x.

Enjoy!

Gina

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