Where can I find an exhaustive list of meta tags and what they do?

Posted by leeand00 on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by leeand00
Published on 2012-05-08T20:08:26Z Indexed on 2012/06/11 22:47 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 365

Filed under:

meta-tags

It seems to me that there are a ton of <meta> tags for all sorts of different purposes out there...

Though they all follow a similar format of

<meta name="" content="" />

they seem to serve a vast variety of different purposes from controlling the crawling of search engine bots, providing search engine bots with descriptions of pages, to making sure a page display correctly on a mobile device.

These tags fall into so many different categories I was wondering if anyone had a wiki or master list of possible meta tags and their content.

Related posts about meta-tags

Meta tags again. Good or bad to use them as page content?

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
From a SEO point of view, is it wise to use exactly the same page title value and keyword/description meta tag values not only as meta information, but also as page content? An example illustrates what I mean. Thanks for any answer, best regards. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" … >>> More
Are Meta tags useful for SEO?

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
Reading a Search Results with this or a similar phrased question can lead to reading a lot of conflicting answers. Are there any meta tags that matter in SEO? From what I have read I do know that meta keywords are no longer used (or so little it is not worth using them) and don't worry with using… >>> More
ASP.NET 4.0 meta tags and Search engine optimisation

as seen on ASP.net Weblogs - Search for 'ASP.net Weblogs'
I am thinking to create a new series of posts regarding ASP.NET and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). I am going to start with this post , talking about some new features that make our asp.net apps more SEO friendly. At the end of the day, there is no point having a great application and somehow "scare"… >>> More
HTML Meta Tags - A Few Reasons Why You Should Include Them

as seen on Ezine Articles - Search for 'Ezine Articles'
There has been a lot of confusion about the Meta tags in relation to Google search engine as of late. The confusion seems to be more over whether to use them or not rather than how to use them. >>> More
Tag You Are It - Use Meta Tags to Drive Traffic - Internet Home Based Business Opportunity

as seen on Ezine Articles - Search for 'Ezine Articles'
The key in how to start a home business is to get your information noticed. That happens from proper use of meta tags and keywords for search engine optimization. Go the extra mile and you will have a profitable Internet home based business opportunity. This will get you well on your way to a legitimate… >>> More

Developer IT