Basic HTML Meta Tags

<meta name="keywords" content="your, tags"/>
<meta name="description" content="150 words"/>
<meta name="subject" content="your website's 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="copyright" 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="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 http-equiv="Expires" content="0"> <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">

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="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="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 that data into your javascript. I store my Google Analytics code in meta tags. Here’s some examples:

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<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

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<meta name="microid" content="mailto+http:sha1:e6058ed7fca4a1921cq91d7f1f3b8736cd3cc1g7" />

Apple Meta Tags

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<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta content="yes" name="apple-touch-fullscreen" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
<meta name="viewport" content="width = 320, initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no">

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 http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">
<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" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" />

TweetMeme Meta Tags

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

Blog Catalog Meta Tags

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<meta name="blogcatalog" />

Rails Meta Tags

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

Apple Tags

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" 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 = 320, initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no">
<meta name="viewport" content ="width = device-width">
<meta name ="viewport" content ="initial-scale = 1.0">
<meta name ="viewport" content ="initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="touch-icon-iphone.png" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="touch-icon-ipad.png" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="touch-icon-iphone4.png" />
<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="/startup.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" type="image/png" href="/apple-touch-icon.png" />