All tags follow this format
<META name="tagname" content="value">
and are implemented in an HTML document within the <HEAD> tag. For example, here is a document which uses the keyword and state (North Carolina) meta tags:
| Name | Description | Example | Notes |
| state | the state to which the information applies | "NC" | notes |
| nipmnsubject* | colon-delimited categorization of document content according to the NIPMN categorized indices | "crops:cotton:pests:life cycles" | notes |
| keywords | a list of keywords describing the document | "cotton, tarnished plant bug" | notes |
| description | brief description of the document | "Illustrated life cycle of tarnished plant bug." | notes |
| author | the author of the information on the page | "John Q. Doe" | notes |
| pestclass | the class of pest by taxonomic type | "nematode" | notes |
| pest | the pest the information in the document refers to | "Tarnished Plant Bug" | notes |
| expires | the date the information in the document expires | "02-Mar-1996" | notes |
| robots | tells web robots whether or not to index a page or follow links on that page | "index,nofollow" | notes |
| nipmn | extensible tag for the NIPMN search agent | "noindex" | notes |
*The nipmnsubject tag may be replaced by a category tag for compatibility with new search engine tools. If that happens, we will make simple search/replace scripts available for a variety of computer platforms to help you update your site.
The keywords, description and author tags will also be used by commercial search engines when indexing your documents.
Please direct comments to John VanDyk.