Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman is a South African entreprenuer who has been innovating in the digital landscape for more than seventeen years. Having pioneered and spearheaded a number of great businesses; Social Code and Afrigator, Justin Hartman is a true digital visionary.

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Ever wondered how many HTML meta tags there are? Ever wanted a complete list of all of them? Well, here you go. The most concise list of meta tags are at your disposal below. Enjoy.

Know of any tags that have been omitted below? Please open a support request so that I can add them.

Basic HTML Meta Tags

<meta charset='UTF-8'>
<meta name='keywords' content='your, tags'>
<meta name='description' content='150 words'>
<meta name='subject' content='your websites subject'>
<meta name='copyright' content='company name'>
<meta name='language' content='ES'>
<meta name='robots' content='index,follow'>
<meta name='revised' content='Sunday, July 18th, 2010, 5:15 pm'>
<meta name='abstract' content=''>
<meta name='topic' content=''>
<meta name='summary' content=''>
<meta name='Classification' content='Business'>
<meta name='author' content='name, [email protected]'>
<meta name='designer' content=''>
<meta name='reply-to' content='[email protected]'>
<meta name='owner' content=''>
<meta name='url' content='http://www.websiteaddrress.com'>
<meta name='identifier-URL' content='http://www.websiteaddress.com'>
<meta name='directory' content='submission'>
<meta name='pagename' content='jQuery Tools, Tutorials and Resources - OReilly Media'>
<meta name='category' content=''>
<meta name='coverage' content='Worldwide'>
<meta name='distribution' content='Global'>
<meta name='rating' content='General'>
<meta name='revisit-after' content='7 days'>
<meta name='subtitle' content='This is my subtitle'>
<meta name='target' content='all'>
<meta name='HandheldFriendly' content='True'>
<meta name='MobileOptimized' content='320'>
<meta name='date' content='Sep. 27, 2010'>
<meta name='search_date' content='2010-09-27'>
<meta name='DC.title' content='Unstoppable Robot Ninja'>
<meta name='ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles' content=''>
<meta name='medium' content='blog'>
<meta name='syndication-source' content='https://mashable.com/2008/12/24/free-brand-monitoring-tools/'>
<meta name='original-source' content='https://mashable.com/2008/12/24/free-brand-monitoring-tools/'>
<meta name='verify-v1' content='dV1r/ZJJdDEI++fKJ6iDEl6o+TMNtSu0kv18ONeqM0I='>
<meta name='y_key' content='1e39c508e0d87750'>
<meta name='pageKey' content='guest-home'>
<meta itemprop='name' content='jQTouch'>
<meta http-equiv='Expires' content='0'>
<meta http-equiv='Pragma' content='no-cache'>
<meta http-equiv='Cache-Control' content='no-cache'>
<meta http-equiv='imagetoolbar' content='no'>
<meta http-equiv='x-dns-prefetch-control' content='off'>

OpenGraph Meta Tags

<meta name='og:title' content='The Rock'>
<meta name='og:type' content='movie'>
<meta name='og:url' content='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/'>
<meta name='og:image' content='http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg'>
<meta name='og:site_name' content='IMDb'>
<meta name='og:description' content='A group of U.S. Marines, under command of...'>

<meta name='fb:page_id' content='43929265776'>
<meta name='application-name' content='foursquare'>
<meta name='og:email' content='[email protected]'>
<meta name='og:phone_number' content='650-123-4567'>
<meta name='og:fax_number' content='+1-415-123-4567'>

<meta name='og:latitude' content='37.416343'>
<meta name='og:longitude' content='-122.153013'>
<meta name='og:street-address' content='1601 S California Ave'>
<meta name='og:locality' content='Palo Alto'>
<meta name='og:region' content='CA'>
<meta name='og:postal-code' content='94304'>
<meta name='og:country-name' content='USA'>

<meta property='fb:admins' content='987654321'>
<meta property='og:type' content='game.achievement'>
<meta property='og:points' content='POINTS_FOR_ACHIEVEMENT'>

<meta property='og:video' content='http://example.com/awesome.swf'>
<meta property='og:video:height' content='640'>
<meta property='og:video:width' content='385'>
<meta property='og:video:type' content='application/x-shockwave-flash'>
<meta property='og:video' content='http://example.com/html5.mp4'>
<meta property='og:video:type' content='video/mp4'>
<meta property='og:video' content='http://example.com/fallback.vid'>
<meta property='og:video:type' content='text/html'>

<meta property='og:audio' content='http://example.com/amazing.mp3'>
<meta property='og:audio:title' content='Amazing Song'>
<meta property='og:audio:artist' content='Amazing Band'>
<meta property='og:audio:album' content='Amazing Album'>
<meta property='og:audio:type' content='application/mp3'>

Create Custom Meta Tags

Use custom meta tags to store data that you need in JavaScript instead of hard-coding data into your JS source code. Here’s some examples:

<meta name='google-analytics' content='1-AHFKALJ'>
<meta name='disqus' content='abcdefg'>
<meta name='uservoice' content='asdfasdf'>
<meta name='mixpanel' content='asdfasdf'>

Company/Service Meta Tags

ClaimID

<meta name='microid' content='mailto+http:sha1:e6058ed7fca4a1921cq91d7f1f3b8736cd3cc1g7'>
<meta name='readability-verification' content='E7aEHvVQpWc8VHDqKvaB2Z58hek2EAv2HuLuegv7'>
<meta name='google-site-verification' content='4SMIedO1X4IkYrYuhEC2VuovdQM36Xxb0btUjElqQyg'>
<meta name='ICBM' content='40.746990, -73.980537'>
<meta name='generator' content='WordPress 3.3.1'>
<meta name='norton-safeweb-site-verification' content='tz8iotmk-pkhui406y41y5bfmfxdwmaa4a-yc0hm6r0fga7s6j0j27qmgqkmc7oovihzghbzhbdjk-uiyrz438nxsjdbj3fggwgl8oq2nf4ko8gi7j4z7t78kegbidl4'>

Apple Meta Tags

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="My App"> <!-- New in iOS6 -->
<meta name='apple-mobile-web-app-capable' content='yes'>
<meta name='apple-touch-fullscreen' content='yes'>
<meta name='apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style' content='black'>
<meta name='format-detection' content='telephone=no'>
<meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width; content=width = 320; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=yes; target-densitydpi=160dpi'>

<link href='/apple-touch-icon.png' rel='apple-touch-icon' type='image/png'>
<link href='touch-icon-ipad.png' rel='apple-touch-icon' sizes='72x72'>
<link href='touch-icon-iphone4.png' rel='apple-touch-icon' sizes='114x114'>
<link href='/startup.png' rel='apple-touch-startup-image'>

<link href='http://github.com/images/touch-icon-iphone4.png' sizes='114x114' rel='apple-touch-icon-precomposed'>
<link href='http://github.com/images/touch-icon-ipad.png' sizes='72x72' rel='apple-touch-icon-precomposed'>
<link href='http://github.com/images/apple-touch-icon-57x57.png' sizes='57x57' rel='apple-touch-icon-precomposed'>

Safari 9 Pinned tabs in El Capitan

<link rel="mask-icon" href="website_icon.svg" color="red">

Internet Explorer Meta Tags

<meta http-equiv='Page-Enter' content='RevealTrans(Duration=2.0,Transition=2)'>
<meta http-equiv='Page-Exit' content='RevealTrans(Duration=3.0,Transition=12)'>
<meta name='mssmarttagspreventparsing' content='true'>
<meta content="IE=edge,chrome=1" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"/>
<meta name='msapplication-starturl' content='http://blog.reybango.com/about/'>
<meta name='msapplication-window' content='width=800;height=600'>
<meta name='msapplication-navbutton-color' content='red'>
<meta name='application-name' content='Rey Bango Front-end Developer'>
<meta name='msapplication-tooltip' content='Launch Rey Bango's Blog'>
<meta name='msapplication-task' content='name=About;action-uri=/about/;icon-uri=/images/about.ico'>
<meta name='msapplication-task' content='name=The Big List;action-uri=/the-big-list-of-javascript-css-and-html-development-tools-libraries-projects-and-books/;icon-uri=/images/list_links.ico'>
<meta name='msapplication-task' content='name=jQuery Posts;action-uri=/category/jquery/;icon-uri=/images/jquery.ico'>
<meta name='msapplication-task' content='name=Start Developing;action-uri=/category/javascript/;icon-uri=/images/script.ico'>
<meta name='msvalidate.01' content='6E3AD52DC176461A3C81DD6E98003BC9'>
<meta http-equiv='cleartype' content='on'>

Windows 8 Meta Tags

<meta name="application-name" content=" Contoso" />
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content=" #009900" />
<meta name="msapplication-square70x70logo" content="images/smalltile.png" />
<meta name="msapplication-square150x150logo" content="images/mediumtile.png" />
<meta name="msapplication-wide310x150logo" content="images/widetile.png" />
<meta name="msapplication-square310x310logo" content="images/largetile.png" />
<meta name="msapplication-notification" content="frequency=30; polling-uri=notifications/contoso1.xml;
polling-uri2=notifications/contoso2.xml; polling-uri3=notifications/contoso3.xml" />

Google Meta Tags

<meta name="news_keywords" content="World Cup, Brazil 2014, Spain vs Netherlands, soccer, football">

Twitter Cards

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@flickr" />
<meta name="twitter:site.id" content="@flickr" />
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@flickr" />
<meta name="twitter:creator.id" content="@flickr" />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Small Island Developing States Photo Submission" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="View the album on Flickr." />
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5510/14338202952_93595258ff_z.jpg" />
<meta name="twitter:image.alt" content="A text description of the image conveying the essential nature of an image to users who are visually impaired." />

<meta name="twitter:player" content="https://urlofplayeriframe.com" />
<meta name="twitter:player" content="https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.html">
<meta name="twitter:player:stream" content="https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4">
<meta name="twitter:player:height" content="320">
<meta name="twitter:player:width" content="600">
<meta name="twitter:domain" content="www.w3schools.com">

<meta name="twitter:app:country" content="US">
<meta name="twitter:app:name:iphone" content="Cannonball">
<meta name="twitter:app:id:iphone" content="929750075">
<meta name="twitter:app:url:iphone" content="cannonball://poem/5149e249222f9e600a7540ef">
<meta name="twitter:app:name:ipad" content="Cannonball">
<meta name="twitter:app:id:ipad" content="929750075">
<meta name="twitter:app:url:ipad" content="cannonball://poem/5149e249222f9e600a7540ef">
<meta name="twitter:app:name:googleplay" content="Cannonball">
<meta name="twitter:app:id:googleplay" content="io.fabric.samples.cannonball">
<meta name="twitter:app:url:googleplay" content="http://cannonball.fabric.io/poem/5149e249222f9e600a7540ef">

TweetMeme Meta Tags

<meta name='tweetmeme-title' content='Retweet Button Explained'>

Blog Catalog Meta Tags

<meta name='blogcatalog'>

Rails Meta Tags

<meta name='csrf-param' content='authenticity_token'>
<meta name='csrf-token' content='/bZVwvomkAnwAI1Qd37lFeewvpOIiackk9121fFwWwc='>

<link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title='RSS' href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/martini'>
<link rel='alternate' type='application/atom+xml' title='Atom 0.3' href='https://example.com/feed.atom'>
<link rel='shortcut icon' type='image/ico' href='/favicon.ico'>
<link rel='fluid-icon' type='image/png' href='/fluid-icon.png'>
<link rel='me' type='text/html' href='http://google.com/profiles/thenextweb'>
<link rel='shortlink' href='http://blog.unto.net/?p=353'>
<link rel='archives' title='May 2003' href='http://blog.unto.net/2003/05/'>
<link rel='index' title='DeWitt Clinton' href='http://blog.unto.net/'>
<link rel='start' title='Pattern Recognition 1' href='http://blog.unto.net/photos/pattern_recognition_1_about/'>
<link rel='bookmark' title='Styleguide' href='http://paulrobertlloyd.com/about/styleguide/'>
<link rel='search' href='/search.xml' type='application/opensearchdescription+xml' title='Viatropos'>

<link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=3'>
<link rel='first' href='http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php'>
<link rel='next' href='http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=4'>
<link rel='previous' href='http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=2'>
<link rel='last' href='http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=147'>

<link rel='canonical' href='http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/06/9-things-to-do-before-entering-social-media.html'>
<link rel='EditURI' type='application/rsd+xml' title='RSD' href='http://smallbiztrends.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd'>
<link rel='pingback' href='http://smallbiztrends.com/xmlrpc.php'>
<link rel='stylesheet' media='only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)' href='http://wordpress.org/style/iphone.css' type='text/css'>
<link rel='wlwmanifest' href='http://www.example.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml' type='application/wlwmanifest+xml'>

<link rel='help' title='FAQ' href='/faq'>
<link rel='logo' type='image/svg' href='https://playfoursquare.s3.amazonaws.com/press/logo/foursquare-logo.svg'>
<link rel='P3Pv1' href='/w3c/p3p.xml'>
<link rel='publisher' href='https://plus.google.com/115081025762845243709/'>
<link rel='image_src' href='http://du3itj18e4z0b.cloudfront.net/7b29fe/images/icon-facebook.gif' type='image/jpeg'>

<link rel='author' href='humans.txt' type='text/plain'>
<link href='http://thenextweb.com/2009/01/08/how-to-snap-up-that-twitter-username-youve-always-wanted/' rel='original-source'>
<link rel='profile' title='Microformats' href='http://microformats.org/profile/specs/'>
<link rel='profile' href='http://gmpg.org/xfn/11'>
<link rel='chrome-webstore-item' href='https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/noojglkidnpfjbincgijbaiedldjfbhh'>

Other Resources

Contributors & Thanks

This list was originally published here and created by Lance Pollard. I found additional tags which were created by Kevin Suttle and have merged Lance, Kevin and my additions to one document and will continue to update as needed.

The photo used in the post is credited to jamesosborne.

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