HTML Meta Tags
Meta tags are used in the <head> tag.
1. Canonical Meta Tag
The canonical meta tag declares the canonical URL to help search engines choose representative pages to index and avoid duplicate content.
<link rel="canonical" href="https://juniortoexpert.com/" />Using canonical meta tag and canonical URL.
2. Alternate (Hreflang) Meta Tag
<link rel="alternate" href="https://juniortoexpert.com/en/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://juniortoexpert.com/es/" hreflang="es" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://juniortoexpert.com/fr/" hreflang="fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://juniortoexpert.com/tr/" hreflang="tr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://juniortoexpert.com/ru/" hreflang="ru" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://juniortoexpert.com/en/" hreflang="x-default" />3. Meta Description Tag
<meta name="description" content="Soft 404 term, what is it, how to fix this error, detection and impact on SEO performance. Click this blog post information about soft 404." />4. Viewport Meta Tag
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1 minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=5"/>Detailed information about using the viewport meta tag, viewport basics, viewport width, screen width, and the relationship between the viewport and media queries.
5. Charset Meta Tag
<meta charset="utf-8">6. Open Graph Meta Tags
<meta property="og:title" content="What is Soft 404 and How to Fix It?" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Soft 404 term, what is it, how to fix this error, detection and impact on SEO performance. Click this blog post information about soft 404." />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://juniortoexpert.com/en/what-is-soft-404/" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Junior to Expert" />Click for all OGP meta tags.
7. Twitter Card Meta Tags
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="What is Soft 404 and How to Fix It?" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Soft 404 term, what is it, how to fix this error, detection and impact on SEO performance. Click this blog post information about soft 404." />
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://juniortoexpert.com/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/what-is-soft-404.png.webp" />8. Robots Meta Tags (Index, Follow, Noindex, Nofollow)
Noindex
Noindex meta tag prevents web pages from being indexed by search engines.
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex" />Nofollow
<meta name="googlebot" content="nofollow" />You can use noindex, and nofollow together.
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, nofollow" />9. Author Meta Tag
<meta name="author" content="jte" />10. Keywords Meta Tag
The keywords meta tag is used to specify keywords relevant to a page, but many search engines no longer support the keywords meta tag.
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, meta tags, SEO">Detailed document about keywords meta tag for SEO.
11. Refresh Meta Tag
The refresh meta tag is used to redirect a page to another page.
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=https://www.example.com/page-a">Document about refresh meta redirection method.
12. Verification Meta Tag
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="verification_token">13. Location Meta Tag
<meta name="geo.region" content="US-NY">
<meta name="geo.placename" content="New York">
<meta name="geo.position" content="37.7749;-122.4194">
