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title: Meta Tags Supported by Google
description: "| **Meta Tag** | **Purpose & Usage** | **Example** | | --- | --- | --- | | **description** | Provides a short summary of the page, sometimes used in search snippets. | | | **robots** | Controls crawling and…"
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updated: "2025-09-02"
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# Meta Tags Supported by Google
| **Meta Tag** | **Purpose & Usage** | **Example** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **description** | Provides a short summary of the page, sometimes used in search snippets. | |
| **robots** | Controls crawling and indexing by all search engines. | |
| **googlebot** | Controls crawling and indexing specifically by Googlebot (Google’s crawler). | |
| **notranslate** | Prevents Google from offering automatic translation for this page. | |
| **nopagereadaloud** | Prevents Google’s text-to-speech services from reading the page aloud. | |
| **google-site-verification** | Verifies site ownership for Google Search Console. | |
| **Content-Type / charset** | Defines character encoding and content type. Recommended to use UTF-8. | or |
| **refresh** | Redirects users after a specified time (not recommended, better to use 301 redirects). | |
| **viewport** | Controls page layout on mobile devices; essential for mobile-friendliness. | |
| **rating** | Labels adult content for SafeSearch filtering. | |
## **Supported HTML Tag Attributes for Indexing & Search**
- href — for links, used by Google to discover pages.
- src — for images and other media sources.
- rel — used in and tags to qualify relationships, e.g., rel="nofollow", rel="canonical".
- data-nosnippet — applied on elements (div, span, section) to exclude parts of content from search snippets.
## **Important Notes**
- Google **ignores unsupported meta tags** like and others.
- Google determines page language from actual text content, **not** from HTML lang attributes.
- Google no longer uses and for pagination.
- The nositelinkssearchbox meta tag is deprecated and ignored.
- Always place meta tags inside the and use **valid HTML** to ensure they are processed.
- Avoid injecting or modifying meta tags with JavaScript if possible, since this can cause issues with Google reading them.
- Use the **URL Inspection Tool** in Google Search Console to verify how Google sees your meta tags.
## **Example Meta Tag Block in******
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