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Page Information Meta Tags

Author

<meta name=”author” content=”Author Name”>

Allows you to put the name of the author in the meta data.  While good for the ego, this probably doesn’t do much for any other purpose.

Content Type

<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html;charset=UTF-8”>

The content type meta tag allows you to specify what type of file you’re sending and what character set it’s in.  While this is sometimes important, usually it’s not.  Your server software should be taking care of sending this information.

Copyright

<meta name=”copyright” content=”Copyright Notice”>

 Allows you to embed a copyright notice into your page. 

 Note: Use &copy; if you want to embed a © symbol

Generator

<meta name=”generator” content=”Program Used”>

The software used to build the page; for example: “Front Page”.  Since I tend to write all my pages by hand, I leave this tag off.  You can leave it in if you like, but it serves no purpose other than advertising for the software you’re using.

Owner

<meta name=”owner” content=”email@address.com”>

The email address of the page owner.  I’ve never used this meta tag, so I can’t really comment on it other than to say it seems like a good way to get your email address picked up by spammers.


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