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What is the meaning of the metatag "GENERATOR"


How do you add a description of the program you used building your website to your metatags? You use the so called GENERATOR tag, also known as the FORMATTER tag.


<meta name="generator" content="program">
or use:

<meta name="formatter" content="program">

Example of a metatag generator


Add the following metatag in the HTML source of your page:

<meta name="generator" content="dreamweaver">
<meta name="generator" content="EditPlus">
<meta name="generator" content="Frontpage">

Where should you add this generator tag?


You may add the metatags in all of your webpages, so not only in the first index page. Make sure that on every page relevant metatags are added.  Add keywords and phrases that are relevant and correspond to the text on that specific page. It might be a lot of work to add specific metatags to each page but you will notice in time that it works!

Metatags Summary - Important SEO things to remember


We suggest that you use the Metatags in your index.htm or index.html page. Than in all other important pages and last but not least in all the pages of your website. Make sure to put some extra effort in it, it will attract extra visitors to your webpage. Create relevant different metatags for each and every page.
  1. Read why metatags are important and how they affect the search engines.
  2. Use our metatags generator to create the correct metatags.
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