How Many Types Of Meta Tags Are There In Seo And What Are Their Characters Limits?

How many types of Meta Tags are there in SEO and what are their characters limits?

 

Here are the most important Meta Tags, required in SEO.

<title>your attractive title here</title>
Title is the first phrase you see as a search result.

<meta name="description" content="your description here">
Description of your website.

<meta name="keywords" content="words">
Most important word to use on specific page.

<meta name="robots" content="selection">
Allows robots to crawl your website.

<meta name="revisit-after" content="period">
How often do you want the spiders to come back and index your website again.

Less used meta tags.

<meta name="copyright" content="text">
<meta name="googlebot" content="noodp">
<meta name="language" content="English">
<meta name="reply-to" content="email address">
<meta name="web_author" content="text">
<meta http-equiv="name" content="value">
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
<meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet">

 

There are four types of Meta tags as given below:


Title tag: It is the text you will see at the top of your browser. Search engines view this text as a title of your page.


Meta description: A brief desc of the page.


Meta robots attribute: An indication to search engine crawler as to what they should do with the page


Meta Keywords: A series of keywords that relevant to the page in question.


The character length of meta description is 155 to 160 and meta title character length is 55 to 60 char.

 

As a general rule, you should aim for the following character limits within each of your meta tags: Page title – 70 characters. Meta description – 160 characters. Meta keywords