Canada Site button Provide a direct link to the Government of Canada Web site. When your site is a GoC intranet provide a link to the GoC Publiservice Web site. To complement the use of these mandatory GoC metatags, Web developers should also ensure that the HTML Title element and two HTML meta elements, Description and Keywords are specified. Authors should use the Title element to identify the contents of a document. Since users often consult documents out of context, authors should provide context-rich titles.
Title tag is displayed as the window header in a Web browser, in bookmarks and in search results.
Common search engines may use the contents of the Keywords tag to improve the quality of search results. The contents of the Description tag may be displayed as a summary in search results. The display of these elements is limited in length by browsers and search engines. Departments or Web sites requiring additional metadata elements should use the additional Dublin Core elements as a starting point. In accordance with the Government of Canada Metadata Framework domain specific metadata element sets may be developed with the mandatory Common Look and Feel and additional Dublin Core metadata elements at their core.