{"id":16572,"date":"2026-09-02T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/meta-tags\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:46:02","slug":"meta-tags","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/meta-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Tags Google Actually Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google supports a small number of meta tags. Most of what is discussed as &#8220;meta tag optimisation&#8221; has no effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Used<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><code>&lt;title&gt;<\/code>, not strictly a meta tag, but the most important element on the page.<\/li><li><code>meta description<\/code>, often used for the snippet; not a ranking factor.<\/li><li><code>meta robots<\/code>, indexing and serving directives.<\/li><li><code>meta charset<\/code>, <code>meta viewport<\/code>, encoding and mobile rendering.<\/li><li><code>meta refresh<\/code>, supported but discouraged; use a server redirect.<\/li><li><code>google-site-verification<\/code>, <code>google: nositelinkssearchbox<\/code>, <code>google: notranslate<\/code>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ignored<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>meta keywords<\/code> has been ignored for many years. Author, revisit-after, distribution, rating and similar tags do nothing for Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ar-kb-tavsiye\"><p><strong>Alien Road recommends:<\/strong> write descriptions for the click, not for the crawler. Google rewrites descriptions when it finds a better match for the query, so a keyword-stuffed description gains nothing and loses persuasion. We write them as ad copy: what the page gives, and why it is worth the click.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short list that has an effect, and the long list that does not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[506],"ar_kb_etiket":[576,575,577],"class_list":["post-16572","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-page-metadata","ar_kb_etiket-html","ar_kb_etiket-meta-tags","ar_kb_etiket-snippets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23688,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16572\/revisions\/23688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=16572"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=16572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}