Directions / Reference
Enter in a list of URLs you'd like to check. You will be given the Meta Data found on the page for each URL.
URL Delimiter:
Choose your separation method from the radio buttons based on how you will be entering your URLs to check. Typically your data has a default separator in place, depending on where your data is coming from (Google Webmaster Tools, PPC software, affiliate reporting, etc.)
- New Line: Common for manual entry, just press enter/return and place each URL on its own line.
- Comma: Also known as CSV. Used when URLs are separated by a comma and all are on one line/long text string.
- Semicolon: Similar to a comma separation listed above. All URLs should be on one line/text string.
- Tab: Used with tab delimited text input. All URLs should be on one line/text string.
Meta Data returned:
The Bulk Meta Data Checker Tool will return the following information:
- Title Tag: The title tag on the page. This is the text that displays in the tab/page heading of each web browser tab/window. This is also the text that Search Engines will use as the text in the link to your page. The Title Tag is the most important piece of text on your page as this is the first piece of text that Search Engines look at when determining what the subject of your page is. This should written with a clear description of the content of your page, and be no more than 70 characters.
- Meta Description: The meta description does not show on your webpage directly - it is used by Search Engines to populate the two lines of text under your title tag in the search engine results page (SERP). The meta description is NOT used as a ranking factor by Google - Bing/Yahoo may still use it however. Regardless, the point of the meta description is to convince a search engine user that this is the best link on the page and that they should click through to your page instead of your competitors. So make this enticing to a reader, but not too salsey... As of 2022, the industry guidance was that the meta description should be no more than 160 characters long.
- Heading Tags: Heading tags, or <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, and <h6> tags are traditionally used as styling techniques. However in more recent years, Search Engines use these to understand different sections of your page and the content on it. So think of them as a hierarchy structure. The <h1> tag is the title of the page - what is it primarily about. It should be similar to your Title Tag. There should only be 1 <h1> tag per page. From here it trickles down to how you want to structure your page, but typically an <h2> is used as the sub-heading of the page, and then <h3> tags are used for each section of content/topic on the page.
- Keywords: The keywords tag was historically used to tell what the main focus keywords of your page are. Google and Bing/Yahoo have not used this as a ranking factor since around 2009. Many website owners believe it is a bad idea to have this tag still present as it displays your keywords to competitors.
- Author: The author meta tag allows you to specify the author of the page.
- Geo Location: Geo Location tags specify the location (country) of the websites origins.
- Viewport: The settings of the viewport tag. This is used to specify to mobile devices how to zoom and display your page because a mobile device assumes your website is a full desktop site. The viewport will tell it otherwise. You can learn more about the viewport here. While this isn't technically SEO, having a moblie ready site is good for SEO, and thus this is good information to know at times.
- Language (Meta): The language that the page is wrtten in. This is specified in a meta tag such as <meta name="language" content="english" />, where english matches the language of the content. NOTE: This is not the current W3C recommended method for declaring language.
- Language (HTTP-EQUIV): The language that the page is wrtten in. This is specified in a meta tag such as <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="fr" />, where fr matches the language code of the content. A list of possible language codes can be found on the w3cschools website. NOTE: This is not the current W3C recommended method for declaring language.
- Lang (ATTR): The language that the content is wrtten in. This is specified by adding an attribute to an element, commonly the opening <html ... > tag, but can be added to any element on the page. An example of this would be <html lang="en"> for the entire page, or <div lang="en">...content...</div> to specify a block of content only. en matches the language code of the content. A list of possible language codes can be found on the w3cschools website. NOTE: This IS current W3C recommended method for declaring language and was introduced with HTML5 standards.
NOTES:
- Only URLs that return a HTTP response code in the 200 or 300 range will be displayed.