Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tag in a markup language that contains descriptive information about a webpage and does not appear when the webpage is displayed in a browser.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
meta tag .
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Examples
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Do implement a title metatag though, because it is user visible, and one of the most important things you can do on your page to improve its ranking.
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When it comes to the keyword metatag every word used must show up in the text on the page or your site will be penalized.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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“Girls and Corpses is kind of like Maxim Magazine meets Dawn of the Dead,” you’re told in metatag shorthand if you Google the phrase — and nothing could better summarize this freaky, funky, tongue-in-cheek fusion of lad mags with softcore zombie porn.
Girls and Corpses: An Interview with Robert Steven Rhine « Skid Roche 2007
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Good luck trying to get your metatag, which is the same as the canonical rel tag except across domains, implemented.
1. Solve journalism’s data problem. 2. Kill the AP. 3. Invest in the next market. « BuzzMachine 2009
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The metatag is a way to group these small ideas into larger, roughly connected ones, much like any of the social networking systems utilize tagging.
oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2007
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The documentation of the talking points is the metatag which is coded in Microsoft Word software.
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Do not use any of UNESCO or World Heritage names, emblems, designs, abstracts or service marks or any other words or codes identifying UNESCO / WHC's web sites in any "metatag" or other information used by search engines or other information location tools to identify and select sites, without UNESCO / WHC's express written permission for a particular use.
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Do not use any of UNESCO or World Heritage names, emblems, designs, abstracts or service marks or any other words or codes identifying UNESCO / WHC's web sites in any "metatag" or other information used by search engines or other information location tools to identify and select sites, without UNESCO / WHC's express written permission for a particular use.
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Do not use any of UNESCO or World Heritage names, emblems, designs, abstracts or service marks or any other words or codes identifying UNESCO / WHC's web sites in any "metatag" or other information used by search engines or other information location tools to identify and select sites, without UNESCO / WHC's express written permission for a particular use.
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Do not use any of UNESCO or World Heritage names, emblems, designs, abstracts or service marks or any other words or codes identifying UNESCO / WHC's web sites in any "metatag" or other information used by search engines or other information location tools to identify and select sites, without UNESCO / WHC's express written permission for a particular use.
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