What are the ways to optimize website meta tags?

[Henrywrites]

Website meta tags are simply known as snippets of text that describe a website page's content. These texts are not on the page but in the Web page's code. When it comes to optimising websites meta tags, it is important to ensure that each title tag is relevant and unique.

What are the other actions that can be taken to optimise website meta tags?

 

[Heatman]

When it comes to having your website optimized for meta tags, it's all targeted at improving the Google ranking of your website. By trying to do this, it's very important to work with your title tags in a way it's going to bring in more positive result. The characters of your title tags shouldn't exceed 50-60 characters and it should be made to be very compelling because that's what's going to make it more visible when people are searching for such.

It's also very important to make sure that all of your meta tags and website generally are mobile devices fully optimized. With your website not being mobile-friendly, it negatively impacts on your SEO.

 

[Nomad]

If you are running wordpress websites, you can find a lot of plugins that can help you add meta tags on your website, my favorite plugin is All Meta Tags. This is a free plugin that can help you add meta tags. Meta tags are keywords that can help you rank well on search engines provided you use high traffic less competitive keywords

 

[Cory]

Note to viewers: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

 

[Heatman]

Note to viewers: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

You're correct. It used to work until around 2009 when Google stopped it because keywords meta tag was often misused and manipulated by website owners. It was more like they were using blackhat trying to rank higher on Google search.