Part 6: Add Your Own Meta Tags
- DC.title
The title of your Web page.<meta name="DC.title" value"About Web Design / HTML" />
- DC.creator
The name of the person who created the page originally.<meta name="DC.creator" value"Jennifer Kyrnin" />
- DC.creator.vCard.EMAIL.internet
The email address of the page creator.<meta name="DC.creator.vCard.EMAIL.internet" value"webdesign@aboutguide.com" />
- DC.subject
Similar to keywords, the subjects the page covers.<meta name="DC.subject" value"Web design, HTML, XML" />
- DC.description.abstract
Similar to the description, a short overview of the page.<meta name="DC.description.abstract" value"Learn all you need to know about Web Design, HTML and XML." />
- DC.publisher
The name of the publisher of the page.<meta name="DC.publisher" value"About.com" />
- DC.date
The date the page was first published.<meta name="DC.date" value"1997-10-27" />
- DC.date.modified
The date the page was last modified.<meta name="DC.date.modified" value"2007-02-21" />
Some other meta tags that are useful for Web pages are:
- author
The Author of the page.<meta name="author" value="Jennifer Kyrnin" />
- copyright
The copyright statement for the page.<meta name="copyright" value="Copyright 1997-2007 Jennifer Kyrnin and About.com" />
- robots
Tells search engine spiders if they should or should not index the page.<meta name="robots" value="index,follow" />
You can also set some browser information with the "http-equiv" type meta tag:
- charset
Set the character set for the page.<meta http-equiv="charset" value="utf-8" />
- expires
Defines when the page should be reloaded - this is for caching browsers and servers.<meta http-equiv="expires" value="2007-12-31" />