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Where is my Meta description tag?
If you want to find out whether a given page is using meta tags, just right-click anywhere on the page and select “View Page Source.” A new tab will open in Chrome (in Firefox, it’ll be a pop-up window). The part at the top, or “head” of the page, is where the meta tags would be.
Open Graph meta tags are snippets of code that control how URLs are displayed when shared on social media. They’re part of Facebook’s Open Graph protocol and are also used by other social media sites, including LinkedIn and Twitter (if Twitter Cards are absent). You can find them in the section of a webpage.
What is Facebook meta tag?
When a link is shared, both Facebook and Twitter scrape the associated web page and read its tags to display the appropriate information. Facebook uses tags leveraging the Open Graph protocol, a classification system for Web pages that extends beyond those tags already defined in HTML5.
A meta description tag should generally inform and interest users with a short, relevant summary of what a particular page is about. They are like a pitch that convinces the user that the page is exactly what they’re looking for. Meta descriptions, however, are not a direct ranking factor. Google says:
Where do I find the meta description on my website?
Now you can easily find the webpage Title for any page on your website. The webpage Meta Description is what search engines will display in the search results below your Title. This is a critical element because your prospects will use your description to determine whether or not to click on your listing.
Where can I find Meta robots noindex tags?
To find indexed pages that may be set to meta robots noindex, hit the “Valid with warnings” tab and look for “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” warnings: Check the source code of these pages for a meta robots noindex tag. Remove either the robots.txt block or meta robots noindex tag depending on what you’re trying to do.
To find rogue meta robots noindex tags, hit the “Excluded” tab and look for pages “Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag”: Remove the robots meta tag from any pages that should be indexed. To find pages with rogue meta robots nofollow tags, crawl the site with Ahrefs’ Site Audit and check the Indexability report for “Nofollow page” warnings.