diff --git a/Contribute/content/metadata.md b/Contribute/content/metadata.md index 36fc07fa..09440ec4 100644 --- a/Contribute/content/metadata.md +++ b/Contribute/content/metadata.md @@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ title: Metadata for Microsoft Learn documentation description: Learn about the required and optional metadata for Microsoft Learn documentation. author: sarah-barrett ms.author: sabarret -ms.reviewer: jasonh -ms.date: 10/13/2021 +ms.date: 05/01/2025 ms.topic: contributor-guide ms.service: learn ms.custom: external-contributor-guide @@ -38,8 +37,6 @@ The following table shows the required metadata attributes. If you omit any of t | description | A summary of the content. 75-300 characters. | Used in site search. Sometimes used on a search engine results page for improved SEO. | | ms.author |The author's Microsoft alias, *without* "@microsoft.com". If you aren't a Microsoft employee, find a suitable Microsoft employee to use in this field. | Identifies the article's owner. The owner is responsible for decisions about the content of the article, and for the article's reporting and BI. | | ms.date | A date in the format MM/DD/YYYY. | Displayed on the published page to indicate the last time the article was substantially edited or guaranteed fresh. The date is entered without time and is interpreted as 0:00 and in the UTC time zone. The date displayed to users is converted to their time zone. | -| ms.service |The primary Microsoft offering the content is about.| Identifies Microsoft offering.

| -| ms.topic | Usually one of the following values:

article, conceptual, contributor-guide, overview, quickstart, reference, sample, tutorial. | Identifies the type of content for reporting purposes. | | title | The page title. | This is the page title that's displayed on the browser tab. It's the most important metadata for SEO. | Attributes are case-sensitive. Enter them exactly as listed, and use a colon and a space between the attributes and the value. If an attribute value includes a colon (:), a hash (#), or any other special character, you must enclose it either single (') or double (") quotes. For example: