If you're new to web development
and search engine optimization, you may find this
tool useful to ensure your Meta Tags are correctly
formed. The tool has two fields -- Keywords and Description:
Keywords: Enter a short list
of keywords and terms related to your site. The terms
can be separated by a comma, but a delimiter is not
required.
Description: Enter a brief
description about your site and what it offers. This
is sometimes used by search engines as a website’s
'snippet' for search results.
At one point Meta tags where a considered
a relatively important factor by search engines. AltaVista
and other older search engines used them to help determine
a site's theme and relevance to a given term. This
is no longer the case. Search engines now rely on
more advanced techniques to do this. Meta tags still
have some life left in them; they are sometimes used
as the snippet of a site's content in search engines
result pages by Google and possibly by other search
engines. It's also possible they still have some influence
with some search engines in determining a site’s
content.
