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Meta tag

Meaning in web development, with examples

nounCommon term

In web development, meta tag means: An HTML tag in the head of a page that gives browsers and search engines information about the page, such as its description or viewport settings.

In Turkish: meta etiketi

How it is used

Common ones are the meta description, the viewport tag, the robots tag and Open Graph tags (og:title, og:image) for link previews on social media. The title tag is often discussed with them but is a separate element.

Example sentences

  1. Every product page needs its own description meta tag.

  2. The link preview shows no image because the og:image meta tag is missing.

Common collocations

  • meta description
  • robots meta tag
  • Open Graph tags
  • add a meta tag
  • SEOSearch Engine Optimization: work that helps a site's pages to be found, understood and shown higher in search engines such as Google.
  • tagA piece of HTML code in angle brackets, such as <h1> or </p>, that marks where an element starts or ends.
  • viewportThe visible area of a web page inside the browser window or phone screen, which changes size when the window is resized or the phone is rotated.
  • indexFor a search engine to store and organize a page after crawling it, so that the page can appear in search results.

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