What is the meaning of the meta name "GENERATOR" tag
How do you add a description of the program you used building your website ? You use the so called meta name generator tag, also known as the formatter tag. This tag you can add to the html of your website, in your metatags.
<meta name="generator" content="program">
or use:
<meta name="formatter" content="program">
Example how to use the meta name generator tag
Add the following meta tag in the HTML source of your page:
<meta name="generator" content="Dreamweaver">
<meta name="generator" content="EditPlus">
<meta name="generator" content="Frontpage">
<meta name="generator" content="NetObjects Fusion 4.0 for Windows"> <meta name="generator" content="FrontPage 4.0"> <meta name="generator" content="WordPress"> <meta name="generator" content="Joomla!"> <meta name="generator" content="Wordpress 2.x.x"> <meta name="generator" content="Macromedia Dreamweaver"> <meta name="generator" content="Joomla! - Copyright Open Source
Matters. All rights reserved." /> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6">
Where should you add this generator tag?
You may add the meta tags in all of your web-pages, so not only in the first index page. Make sure that on every page relevant meta tags 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 meta tags to each page but you will notice in time that it works!
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