Does adding meta tags in a GitHub README make it more searchable

Question

If I use <meta> tags like keywords and description in a GitHub README.md file will it make the repo more SEO friendly?

Dropforge

Answer 1

Not that I know of (GitHub support should be able to confirm or refute it).

Even projects about meta and SEO (seo_meta, meta-tags, ...) don't add <meta> in their README.md.
You find them mentioned in this documentation, but it is for a separate CMS: forkcms (nothing to do with GitHub pages).

Cotenant

Answer 2

Browser engine doesn't need any meta tags to works. @n1trux recommand me to use this for awesome-regex :

<!--
  Title: Awesome Regex
  Description: A curated list of amazingly awesome regex resources.
  Author: aloisdg
  -->

You can see it on the raw README.md.

@n1trux full message :

In my awesome-sysadmin repo, I did it like this:

<!--
  Title: Awesome Sysadmin
  Description: A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.
  Author: n1trux
  -->

Which is essentially an HTML comment. You could also just use real meta tags like so:

<meta name='keywords' content='regex, regular expressions, regexp'>

If you include that in the header, it won't be shown.

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Coimbatore