This lesson is an overview of meta tags as a part of On-Page SEO.
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Question 1 of 3
Does Google look at Meta Tags these days in order to understand what your web pages are about?
Hmm, you never talked about that in the video so I don't know.
No, Google and all the other search engines don't need to look at the meta tags as they can figure out what your page is about by reading the images you have on there.
Yes, filling out your meta tags is important as its part of the information that the search engines need to rank your site appropriately.
Question 2 of 3
Which statement is correct?
By filling out the meta tags on my site, it virtually guarantees me higher rankings with all the search engines.
By filling in your title, description and alt (image) tags, you are aiding the search engines to properly understand what your pages are about so they can properly index your website and assign it a ranking in the search results.
Google has spent millions of dollars telling website owners that if they fill out the meta tags on their websites, they will deindex the site because meta tags take up too much of their web crawlers time.
Question 3 of 3
The 3 main types of meta tags are: (choose the correct group)
Title, description and alt (image) tags
Title, perm80 and mod tags.
Description, peecachu and hanging tags.