Meta tags

In each page’s head tags you can see many meta tags that will come in handy to have a good SEO and relevant info for the crawlers to scan your website. Uncomment the meta tags you are going to use! Be relevant and don’t spam!

 

Simply and mandatory meta tags:#

<meta name="keywords" content="premium html template, unique premium template, multipurpose template" />
<meta name="description" content="Kallyas is an ultra-premium, responsive theme built for todays websites. Create your website, fast.">

 

Canonical meta tags#

(url of your website – more here http://www.metatags.info/rel_canonical )

<link rel="canonical" href="http://hogash-demo.com/kallyas_html/" />

 

Restrict google from scanning info from Dmoz or YahooDir#

More here: http://www.seoboy.com/what-are-the-meta-tags-noodp-and-noydir-used-for-in-seo/
Also more on robots here https://yoast.com/articles/robots-meta-tags/

<meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir"/>

 

Social media tags and more#

Read more here: http://moz.com/blog/meta-data-templates-123 !!!

Debugging tools:

 

Google Authorship and Publisher Markup#

Author = Owner, Publisher = who built the website. Add profile url in href=””.
Profile url example: https://plus.google.com/1130658794498306186 or replace [Google+_Profile] below with your profile #

<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/[Google+_Profile]/posts"/>
<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/[Google+_Page_Profile]"/>

 

Schema.org markup for Google+#

<meta itemprop="name" content="Kallyas Premium Template">
<meta itemprop="description" content="This is the page description">
<meta itemprop="image" content="">

 

Open Graph Protocol meta tags.#

Used mostly for Facebook, more here http://ogp.me/

<meta property="og:locale" content="en"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="website"/>
<meta property="og:title" content="Vauss Premium Template"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="Vauss is an ultra-premium, responsive theme built for todays websites."/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Vauss Premium Template, Vauss Responsive Template"/>
<meta property="og:url" content=""/><!-- Url of your website -->
<meta property="og:image" content=""/><!-- Representative image -->

 

Twitter Cards#

Will generate a card based on the info below.
More here: http://davidwalsh.name/twitter-cards or https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:image" content=""><!-- Representative image -->
<meta name="twitter:domain" content="hogash.com">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@hogash">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@hogash">
<meta name="twitter:url" content=""><!-- Url of your website -->
<meta name="twitter:title" content="How to Create a Twitter Card">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Twitter's new Twitter Cards API allows developers to add META tags to their website, and Twitter will build card content from links to a given site.">

 

 

GeoLocation Meta Tags / Geotagging.#

Used for custom results in Google.
Generator here http://mygeoposition.com/

<meta name="geo.placename" content="Chicago, IL, USA" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="41.8781140;-87.6297980" />
<meta name="geo.region" content="US-Illinois" />
<meta name="ICBM" content="41.8781140, -87.6297980" />

 

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set#

Using DC metadata is advantageous from an SEO perspective because search engines might interpret the extra code as an effort to make page content as descriptive and relevant as possible.

<link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.0/" />
<meta name="DC.Title" content="Kallyas Premium Template, Kallyas Responsive Template" />
<meta name="DC.Creator" content="hogash" />
<meta name="DC.Type" content="software" />
<meta name="DC.Date" content="2014-09-05" />
<meta name="DC.Format" content="text/html" />
<meta name="DC.Language" content="en" />