Introduction
Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in .NET 4.0.
Question: What are page metakeywords and metadescription properties?
In simple terms "It enables the search engines to filter out the data content within the webpage with these properties".
Step 1: Create a new "ASP.NET Web Application", as in:
![Output1.jpg]()
Step 2: The complete code WebForm1.aspx looks like this:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebForm1.aspx.cs" Inherits="PageMetaApp.WebForm1" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<center>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Page Meta and Meta-Description in .NET"
Font-Bold="true" Font-Size="Large" Font-Names="Verdana" ForeColor="Maroon"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="server" Text="Please Enter Meta Keywords" Font-Size="Large"
Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Italic="true"></asp:Label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Width="120px"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text="Please Enter Meta-Description Properties"
Font-Size="Large" Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Italic="true"></asp:Label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" Width="120px"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Set Properties" Font-Names="Verdana"
Width="213px" BackColor="Orange" Font-Bold="True" OnClick="Button1_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<asp:Label ID="Label5" runat="server" Font-Bold="true" Font-Names="Verdana" ForeColor="Maroon"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</center>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Step 3: The complete code WebForm1.aspx.cs looks like this:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
namespace PageMetaApp
{
public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TextBox1.Focus();
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox1.Text) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox2.Text))
{
Label5.Text = "Please Enter Some Values"; Label5.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
}
else
{
this.Page.MetaKeywords = TextBox1.Text;
this.Page.MetaDescription = TextBox2.Text;
TextBox1.Text = string.Empty;
TextBox2.Text = string.Empty;
Label5.Text = "Properties set successfully";
Label5.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
}
}
}
}
Step 4: The output of application looks like this:
![Output2.png]()
Step 5: The data entering output of application looks like this:
![Output3.png]()
Step 6: The displaying Meta properties output of application looks like this:
![Output4.jpg]()
I hope this article is useful for you.