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What is the explanation of the meta-tag "GENERATOR"


How do you add a description of the program you used building your website to your meta-tags? You use the so called GENERATOR tag, also known as the FORMATTER tag.


<meta name="generator" content="program">
or use:

<meta name="formatter" content="program">

Example of a meta-tag generator


Add the following meta-tag in the HTML source of your page:

<meta name="generator" content="dreamweaver">
<meta name="generator" content="EditPlus">
<meta name="generator" content="Frontpage">

Where should you add this generator tag?


You may add the meta-tags in all of your webpages, so not only in the first index page. Make sure that on every page relevant meta-tags are added.  Add keywords and phrases that are relevant and correspond to the text on that specific page. It might be a lot of work to add specific meta-tags to each page but you will notice in time that it works!

Meta-tags Summary - Important SEO things to remember


We suggest that you use the Meta-tags in your index.htm or index.html page. Than in all other important pages and last but not least in all the pages of your website. Make sure to put some extra effort in it, it will attract extra visitors to your webpage. Create relevant different meta-tags for each and every page.

  1. Read why meta-tags are important and how they affect the search engines.
  2. Use our meta-tags generator to create the correct meta-tags.
  3. Use our website analyzer to get professional advice from the meta-tags experts.
  4. Submit your website to the search engines and choose one of our packages:
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