If you want to make money by writing on a website or blog then one important part of SEO (search engine optimization) that you don't want to overlook is Meta Tags. If you are to make any money from your website you need traffic coming to it. One of the best sources of traffic is search engines. I have mentioned the importance of keywords when writing your articles, but all those keywords will be in vain if your website does not have good meta tags.
What are Meta Tags?
Meta tags are simply instructions in your websites html code which tell the search engine robots what your website or blog is called. What it is about. What your keywords are. It also includes instructions to the robots to index your site and to follow your links and to return in a specific time frame.
If you have a website and you are unsure if you have meta tags you can right click on a plain part of a page and then select "view source" from the box. This will bring up the html code. Meta tags will be near the beginning in the head section.
Alternatively you can use many available free webtools. Just google "free meta tag checker" and you will find lots. Always use several though because although many such tools are great, some SEO websites do try to make out your website has problems just to tempt you into buying some software package from them.
How to Create Meta Tags
If you don't have meta tags or your meta tags are inadequate then by far the easiest way of creating them is using a meta tag generator. Again there are lots of free ones available.
Once you have your meta tag html simply copy and paste it to the head section of your websites html code.
Meta tags will look something like this:
meta content='Make Money By Writing' name='Title'
meta content='Make money by writing online. How to make money writing articles, blogs and websites. Learn about SEO, marketing and copyright.' name='description'
meta content='make money, money, writing, online, articles, blogs, websites, marketing, SEO, copyright' name='keywords'
meta content='index, follow' name='robots'
meta content='7 days' name='revisit after'
but they will have the appropriate opening and closing html tags < before and /> and after each entry.
After you have finished adding your meta tags use a meta tag checker again to test they work correctly. You should find that after a few days your site will begin to become more visible to search engines and your page rank will improve. You will then get more traffic as a result. Remember more traffic = make money by writing!
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