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First of all, what is metadata? a set of data that describes and gives information about other data.

It
helps to organize, find, and understand data. So, basically, metadata is simply data about data. As it
gives a description and context of the data. A blog post is one of the many uses for which metadata is
used.

what is a blog post? Based on my research, I gathered that it is any article, news piece, or guide that's
published in the blog section of a website. A blog post typically covers a specific topic or query, is
educational in nature, ranges from 600 to 2,000+ words, and contains other media types such as images,
videos, infographics, and interactive charts.

The data you give to search engines that is not visible to users of your website or blog is known as
metadata. In other words, your blog contains two separate text sets. A portion of what is visible to
humans and one that is visible to search engine algorithms. Only by inspecting the page's source code
can people access the metadata. In order for search engine algorithms to more quickly determine
whether the content of a page is relevant to the search term entered by someone using that search
engine to discover information, webmasters employ metadata to define the many components of each
blog page or post.

That is the basic idea of using metadata with your blog. While certain types of metadata are contained
within tags and attributes in the page's body, others are displayed in the HTML document's Head
section. Google will take special care to follow out your instructions with the Metadata you supply,
regardless of where it appears. Metadata is really vital information.

The search engine is given metadata, and Google is very precise about how it follows your instructions
and uses such data. Make sure your directions are clear, but if you do, you will have a valuable method
of pointing search engines to the crucial parts of your website and describing each web page's purpose
in great detail.

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