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What will happen if we forgot to give title tag?
If you forgot to include page titles and meta descriptions when you launched your site, they can be retrofitted at any time. You will get the SEO benefit of having them soon after adding them. There is no penalty for not having them earlier.
Is meta tag compulsory?
As a mandatory element in the HTML head, the title is generally placed before any further meta tags. Additionally, the title tag is used by all the biggest search engines as a header on the search engine results pages (SERPs). It therefore has a decisive influence on the clicking behavior of search engine users.
Is meta tag empty tag?
The tag is used to provide such additional information. This tag is an empty element and so does not have a closing tag but it carries information within its attributes.
Where is meta tag only found?
head
The only difference between tags you can see (on a blogpost, say) and tags you can’t see is location: meta tags only exist in HTML, usually at the “head” of the page, and so are only visible to search engines (and people who know where to look).
How long should your title tag be?
50-60 characters
Title tags should not exceed 50-60 characters in length, otherwise they might be truncated in the SERP, or if your title isn’t sufficient Google will automatically provide a different title tag. This could cut off important words, branding, and affect your click through rate.
Do you need to include meta tags in a document?
You can include one or more meta tags in your document based on what information you want to keep in your document but in general, meta tags do not impact physical appearance of the document so from appearance point of view, it does not matter if you include them or not.
Meta tags may have some direct rank affect in other search engines though (like Bing or Duck Duck Go) so we do highly recommend always writing a well optimized meta description that includes a keyword for every page of your website. Will they always use the meta description I write?
How long should a meta description tag be?
If your meta description tag is shorter than say 125 characters or longer than 160 characters – rewrite it to fit under the 160 characters range and see if it gets pulled. Make sure you are not using weird characters like quotation marks which can cause weird effects. Keep the length to approximately 135-160 characters.
Can a < meta > tag be used to redirect a page?
You can use tag to redirect your page to any other webpage. You can also specify a duration if you want to redirect the page after a certain number of seconds. Following is an example of redirecting current page to another page after 5 seconds. If you want to redirect page immediately then do not specify content attribute.