ASP.NET 4.0,SEO and meta tags

I am thinking to create a new series of posts regarding ASP.NET and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). I am going to start with this post , talking about some new features that make our asp.net apps more SEO friendly. At the end of the day, there is no point having a great application and somehow “scare” the search engines away. This is going to be a short post so let’s quickly have a look at meta keywords and ASP.NET 4.0.

Meta keywords and description are important elements of a page and make it search engine friendly. ASP.Net 4.0 added 2 new properties on the Page object to let us define the Meta Keywords and Description.

Create a simple asp.net application using Visual Studio 2010. In the Default.aspx.cs code behind file type

Page.MetaKeywords = “asp.net,vb,c#,css,html,”;

Page.MetaDescription = “This is my blog that focuses on ASP.NET.”;

Alternatively we can add those two meta tags in the Page directive

<%@ Page Language=”C#” MetaKeywords=”asp.net,vb,c#,css,html” MetaDescription=”This is my blog that focuses on ASP.NET.” AutoEventWireup=”true”  CodeFile=”Default.aspx.cs” Inherits=”_Default” %>

Run your application. Go to View->Source and see the meta tags

Hope it helps!!!