metatag

Hidden webpage label

A metatag is a snippet of code in a webpage's header that provides information about the page to search engines and browsers.

Metatags describe content, specify keywords, control indexing behavior, or define how the page should appear when shared on social media.

They're invisible to visitors but crucial for SEO: Make sure your metatags include relevant keywords.

SEO

ranking

Ordered position assignment

keywords · indexing · crawling · spider · bot · algorithm · SERP · traffic · analytics · sitemap

HTML

attribute

Quality assigned to something

content · name · property · refresh · description · author · generator · robots · canonical · link

taxonomy

keyword

Indexed lookup term

ontology · vocabulary · thesaurus · index · hierarchy · facet · term · label · organize · systematize

social

thumbnail

Reduced preview image

  • previewAdvance showing sample
  • sharePortion given out
  • embedFix within surrounding material

title · description · image · card · Facebook · LinkedIn · Pinterest · unfurl · engagement · viral

metadata

microdata

Individual observation records

vocabulary · namespace · property · value · machine-readable · semantic · annotation

Opposites
visibility

metatagbody text

Document's main prose

payload

Family

metatags

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Rated G