Questions tagged [meta-tags]
Meta tags convey information about a webpage, such as its description or its keywords, in a way that a computer program can understand. They can be specified with the <meta> element and its 'name' and 'content' attributes.
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How to allow/disallow in Robot.txt file [closed]
I am working on houseofparty.com but I am unable to allow/disallow new GSC's robot.txt file. can anyone help me to add/remove bots?
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Could meta http-equiv origin-trial be hacked content?
Google alerted me that it found "malicious software" in my page. Thinking that my site might be hacked, I went to Google Search Console's URL inspection and ran a live test on the reported ...
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Why my website showing in lower case in google serp? [duplicate]
My website is focused on custom logo neon signs and meta title optimize with capital letter. When users search for "custom logo neon sign," I have noticed that the title of my website in the ...
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Will AngularJS and Wordpress SEO techniques conflict with each other?
I am very new to WordPress. I implemented a web site using AngularJS and these SEO techniques:
Title tag
Meta description tags
Heading tags
'alt' tags
'og' tags
I am planning to use WordPress as a ...
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Usage of noindex / canonical tag for products in shop
I have a category in the online shop with around 16000 products. Now the ranking always jumps from the category page to a product page.
My solution was to set the product pages to noindex, or would ...
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Ideal meta description length
One source claims that a meta description for a website should be between 160 and 300 characters however when I do a test of 160 characters in seobility's SERP snippet generator, it thinks my text ...
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Two smiliar pages: Google index the wrong one
Good morning On my site I offer a product, let's say "Purchase a car" (obviously it's not that), I was ranked in second position on google for years, then I launched a more specific product (...
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What will be used by search engines when you specify both <title> and meta name=title
I have a web page in which the <title> element under <head> is different than `<meta name="title"
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome</title>
<meta name=&...
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Meta title multi language website same keyword use
I have a website with multiple languages, but some of the most important keywords are the same/similar in the different languages. For the meta descriptions it's not a problem but the titles are very ...
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Which tag is used to change the website name/URL in Google's Index?
See the image below, GREEN is what I want to achieve and RED is what it shows now:
I tried to use:
<meta property="og:site_name" content="something something" />
But it did ...
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Is it possible to control what image shows next to your website's name in Google search results? (not image search) [duplicate]
When I search for my website I find this image next to the search result in Google. Can I control what image is shown here and how? Could this be done through metadata for example?
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How can I replace my site's domain name on search engines with its business name?
I'm building a site and I've noticed that when I search my site's name on Google, unlike other sites my website's URL is displayed instead of the business title.
Can somebody please help me figure ...
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Are there any headers to suggest a web request is done to retrieve metadata?
Since polling metadata (e.g. open graph protocol metadata) from web request responses to display a preview of a url has become common, e.g. on social media and messengers, is there currently any ...
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Facebook PAGE Comments are dissapearing on my page at intervals of 15minutes to few hours
Facebook PAGE Comments are dissapearing on my page at intervals of 15minutes to few hours.
What I require:
Tentative fix, link to fixes for the issue provided below on 2 videos and screenshots.
First ...
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How to give a website a content rating beyond just "adult"
Is there any generally accepted way to give a page a content rating beyond just "adult", such as PG-13 or equivalent?
All I can find is the <meta name="rating" content="...
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Can I use canonical tags in place of 301 redirect that remove a parameter that had been used by a meta refresh?
For one of my sites, I had used a the meta tag refresh:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="...;url=...">
A few months ago, I removed this tag and instead implemented 301 ...
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Does Open Graph allow multiple types?
According to the OGP documentation it is allowed to have multiple entries of the same tag with different values. In this case, tag properties are read in the order they appear. In the following ...
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My website's image does not work with twitter cards (unclear issues with robots.txt)
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I am trying to properly set up metadata for a twitter summary card on my website. I have everything in place, but the card image is not showing.
I use Grav, but I guess it does not matter.
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Having multiple keywords separated by comma in the title of the page?
I want to target multiple keywords with same piece of content (I am thinking to add multiple keywords separated by commas in title and description of the page). So, is it the right approach or I am ...
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Does Googlebot call every link separately (with a new request)?
Does Googlebot call every link separately (with a new request) or does it follow all links by JavaScript (for example by click event)?
I have a vue-js website which contains all the links and of ...
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How do I indicate city level variants of content pages for SEO?
I am developing a service that deals with local city governments. For SEO, I want to have a page for each city that has some unique content for the city government (phone number, address for city hall,...
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What's the difference between "meta name" and "meta property"? Does this affect Google displaying meta description?
We recently found that our website doesn't show the meta description as we want when googling the results. Instead, it shows the content from the web page itself.
Some people say it's because Google ...
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Should the locale en_US be used if targeting a global market?
When authoring site meta data, if targeting an international market of English-speakers, is it better to use the common en_US, or simply en, or is there some locale code for specifying that the region ...
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What's the use of obscure Open Graph (og:) meta tags?
I've seen and used Open Graph properties, such as og:title, og:description, and og:image, because the effects they have are obvious and desired. However, in the official Open Graph document, there are ...
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Are there any meta tags equivalent to title / description that are less common in link previews but still relevant?
Let's say you are making a page about yourself that you commonly share in communities where you are "anonymous", but you still want people who know you well to be able to find your page ...
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Are H1, title, and meta tags mandatory on a 404 error page?
404 error page is not used to enhance SEO (see: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2445990), so does it really necessary to have the H1 tag, a page title, a meta description, and a ...
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How do Google and Yahoo fetch content for pages behind a paywall or registration wall?
How do Google and Yahoo fetch content for pages that are behind a paywall or registration wall? I noticed that search results can show content that is not visible publicly without a paid or registered ...
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Share link preview not displaying in whatsapp desktop
I have a website where I have properly set the OG tags, and where I share one of the pages on WhatsApp for android it properly displays the preview.
However, when using WhatsApp for desktop, the ...
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Why does it cause issues to use robots.txt and a meta robots tag at the same time?
It seems common wisdom that using X-Robots-Tag/meta robots with robots.txt to block a URL from being indexed "can cause issues", e.g.:
Using both X-Robots-Tag and meta robots on a URL is ...
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Facebook share not picking up Open Graph tags from s3 static hosting
I am trying to make a user-created page using s3. The user submits a photo and a page gets created with a unique id.
My bucket Strucuture:
S3 BUCKET
-231(user-unique id)
-index.html (generated ...
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Is the meta name="author" tag actually good for SEO?
I noticed that every time I search on google for one of my pages, the sentence "[my name] blog" is added to the title results on Google when the title is not very long:
I don't think that ...
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How to modify Social media sharing thumbnail grid?
I am not a SEO guy, but desperately finding an answer in web without any clue. How can I make this kind of Social media sharing view
instead of this
This is what I tried:
<meta property="og:...
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Is it okay to omit Open Graph and Twitter tags for social network cards and SEO?
My pages already have good html meta tags like title and description for Google SEO. I also added og:title, og:description, twitter:title, twitter:description and other meta tags, but I found in most ...
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Google indexing: Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical [duplicate]
I have requested an index for a website however am being shown this message:
Duplicate, submitted URL not selected as canonical
I do not have any duplicates of this site according to google and I ...
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Should the content attribute URL always link to Facebook when using the <meta property="article:author"> tag
I'm building a WordPress site that uses the Yoast Plugin.
Yoast adds the following meta tag:
<meta property="article:author" content="https://www.facebook.com/xxxxxxxxxx">
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Why different title on the same website [duplicate]
I have recently changed the title of my website and whenever I search it I get the previous one only
but on search with the specific keywords change I have recently made I get the correct output which ...
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Meta Titles appearing incorrectly on Google [duplicate]
I was hoping you could help me with a question about a Meta Title query as they seem to be appearing inaccurately - and its driving me mad.
Few considerations:
Google seems to be displaying our old ...
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robots meta tag for specific web crawler
Web crawler list
What I want
noimageindex (Indexation-controlling parameters) will only work for googlebot (2 : two meta tag - code below)
Others all crawlers (example as a YandexBot, Baiduspider) ...
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What is a difference in the order of "follow" and "index" in a robots meta tag?
What is the difference between
<meta name="robots" content="follow, index">
and
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
Would either create ...
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What are HTML meta tags date, search_date, and DC.title?
What are purpose of these tags? What is meaning of DC.title?
I collected the tags from this github source
<meta name='date' content='Sep. 27, 2010'>
<meta name='search_date' content='2010-09-...
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Is it necessary to register website on facebook, twitter or LinkedIn for og: tags
I have addded all og tags and twitter tags in my react website but facebook and linkedIn website debugger cannot get the tag. Is it necessary to register or claim domain website on Facebook and ...
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What canonicals and other meta tags should be used for the same page with different versions specified by URL?
I'm the maintainer of a popular tool that helps many projects to create documentation websites. We support versioning, which means that the documentation will be "fixed" to a specific ...
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How to interpret this html page and where do I add meta tag
I'd like to redirect my webpage to another webpage. I used a template to develop the website and I couldn't read the code on this page. Could anyone tell me what does the code below means?
--- layout: ...
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meta data / tags for bootstrap modals
I created a website on bootstrap and a lot of content is in the modals (pop ups) of the webpage,
I was wondering how do I tell search engines that for example Contact Us page www.example.com/#...
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What are those tags called? [duplicate]
I have searched alot for the name of those tags and how to implement it, some sites apply it as their menu, others as categories and tags. So I want to know how to add it to a website
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Resource hints in HTTP header not detected in Lighthouse
I have resource hints in the document head that are detected by the browser and in Lighthouse. However, if I move them to the http header (so they can be read by the browser without parsing the ...
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How do you prevent HTML special character coding from displaying on a website?
An article in the Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) displays HTML special character code instead of the actual character, the greater-than sign. Thus, instead of displaying >, the article displays &...
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Adding Canonical Tags Using Openelement
It appears that this format is generally found when adding canonical tags to a webpage <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com" /> However, using Open element the ...
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After verify site ownership is it ok to remove html meta tag from index html file?
we have verified our site ownership using HTML tag in index file of our website
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="your verification string">
we have added above ...
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What is difference between robots.txt, sitemap, robots meta tag, robots header tag?
So I am trying to learn SEO and I am honestly confused and have following 8 questions.
Do I tell a bot not to visit a certain link through X-Robots-Tag or through robot meta tag or robots.txt?
Is it ...
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