SEO Meta Tags Checklist

Charset Tag – Ensures correct character encoding. <meta charset="UTF-8">

Description Tag – Summary for SERPs. <meta name="description" content="This is an example description of a page.">

Keywords Tag (obsolete) – Historically used, now ignored by most search engines. <meta name="keywords" content="SEO, meta tags, html, optimization">

Robots Tag – Control indexing and link following. <meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

Viewport Tag – Responsive design for mobile devices. <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

X-UA-Compatible Tag – Ensures compatibility with older IE versions. <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">

Open Graph Title – Social media page title. <meta property="og:title" content="Page Title for Social Media">

Open Graph Description – Description for social sharing. <meta property="og:description" content="Social media description of the page.">

Open Graph Image – Image preview on social media. <meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/image.jpg">

Author Tag – Credits the page author. <meta name="author" content="John Doe">

Noindex/Nofollow – Prevents indexing and crawling. <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

Rating Tag – Indicates content rating (General, Mature, etc.). <meta name="rating" content="General">

Noarchive Tag – Prevents cached copies. <meta name="robots" content="noarchive">