How to add meta title and description for SEO (in HTML)

For SEO, you’ll want to define the meta title of a page, and the meta description of a page. The Meta Title is the first piece of information the use will get on Google. The descriptions adds more context to the Title.

With HTML it’s quite simple. Simply add the following tags between the <head></head> tags. To add the meta title, you can either do a simple <title> tag.

<title> Title of the website goes here </title>

Or, you can add it with a meta tag

<meta name="title" content="Title of the website goes here">

With the description, you should add a <meta> tag with name=”description”.

    <meta
        name="description"
        content="Description goes here." />

To preview your changes to the meta tag and metatags.io – a free tool.

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