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SUMMARYWeb Spiders or Robots are a great resource for people searching the Internet, but they present a problem to Web page designers who want their pages to be seen and properly indexed. One popular solution to this behavior is to use the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) META element. MORE INFORMATION
The META element is used within the HEAD element to embed document meta-
information that is not defined by other HEAD elements. This embedded
information can be extracted by servers and clients to identify, index, and
catalog specialized document meta-information. A META element can be
written in one of two forms: META NAME and META HTTP-EQUIV. The NAME
attribute is returned in the HEAD of the document, while the HTTP-EQUIV
attribute is converted into the HTTP response header which is parsed by the
Web server.
<META NAME="author" CONTENT="John Doe">The NAME attribute declares a variable for the page and the CONTENT attribute assigns a value to the variable. A META element standard for Robots has evolved which consists of two parts:
Two examples of this standard are:
Example 1 Example 2NOTE: Some robots ignore the NAME attribute and use their own algorithm to generate a description of the page. To add a META tag like the ones shown in the examples to your Web page, follow these steps:
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