A meta tag is a coding statement used in the html language. The tag describes some aspect of the contents of a Web page and each web page has a tag. The information provided by you in the tag is used by the major search engines to index the page so that someone searching for matching content will be able to find it. The meta tag is placed at the top of the html coding in the page and is part of the heading.
There are several kinds of meta tags. The most talked about are the ones that are you are referring to. The “keyword meta tags and the “description meta tags.” The keywords meta tag will list the words and phrases to best describe your page. The description meta tag gives a brief description of your page. Both of these tags are used by the search engines for indexing. These are the tags that play a large roll in ranking (SEO). The description tag is the one commonly seen from entering a keyword in the search engine. When you google or yahoo this is the description provided about the site.
A well written meta tags can help make the page rank higher in search results.A well written meta tags can help make the page rank higher in search results.
Most search engines use the contents of a page as a way to determine how to index it as well. The webmaster/creator of a web page should be sure to include meta tags with appropriate keywords and description.
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