Let’s suppose you’ve finally decided to build your first blog from scratch. You’ve learned a bit of JavaScript from an online course, and you finally had the courage to put it into practice. Although your blog might not look as amazing and wonderful as Digital-Overload.com, you’re still determined to add a lot of interesting articles for the users to read. Obviously, if you’re persistent with the articles, that will generate traffic.
You can monetize your blog by generating more and more traffic. While that traffic won’t just magically fall down from the sky, you’ll need to work for it. Therefore, your blog constantly needs interesting and unique posts. You will have to focus on specific topics where you believe you are good at, and keep posting articles on those subjects.
You know that old saying that money isn’t everything in life. In our case, having well-written and quality posts isn’t everything in order to make a blog famous. You also need to add the right HTML tags, which is why we’re here to tell you which ones are the best!
What’s the importance of HTML tags?
HTML tags are crucial for a website, as they will be the driving force behind making that website as visible as possible for search engines such as Google. In other words, many of the tags are important for SEO, which refers to Search Engine Optimization. Also, HTML tags will provide structure and context to a webpage’s content.
What are the most important HTML tags for SEO?
Here’s a list of some of the most important HTML tags for SEO (Search Engine Optimization):
The title tag (‘<title>’)
The title tag is easily one of the most important SEO elements that appear on the page. What it does is that it defines the title of a webpage, and it will be displayed on search engine results pages. If you want to add the best title tag possible, you need to make it descriptive, concise, and also include relevant keywords.
The meta description tag (‘<meta name=”description” content=”…”>’)
The meta description tag is responsible for providing a brief summary of the content that exists on your webpage. This tag will display itself in search results, and it will influence click-through rates. You also need to keep in mind that it includes relevant keywords, while it will also encourage users to click on the link.
Header tags
Header tags such as ‘<h1>’, ‘<h2>’, or ‘<h4>’ can be used to define headings and subheadings that exist in the content hierarchy. Header tags will help search engines understand the structure and importance of the content.
Meta robots tag (‘<meta name=’robots’ content=’…’>’)
Meta robots tag has the mission of controlling how search engines will index and follow links that exist on a specific webpage. When it comes to common values, we can mention “follow,” “nofollow,” “index,” and “noindex.”
Canonical tag (‘<link rel=’canonical’ href=’…’>’)
What the canonical tag does is that it specifies the preferred version of a webpage if there are issues regarding duplicate content. They can help search engines understand which URK needs to be indexed and ranked.
In the end, you need to keep in mind that not all topics that you find useful will work for the majority. If, for instance, you like reading physical books, there’s a fact that, unfortunately or not, the majority of people in general don’t read physical books nowadays anymore. They’re more into vlogging or news articles. This means that you have no other option but to try to adapt.
Tim M. Hill helped bring Digital-Overload from a weekly newsletter to a full-fledged news site by creating a new website and branding. He continues to assist in keeping the site responsive and well organized for the readers. As a writer to Digital-Overload, Tim mainly covers mobile news and gadgets.
