When you are creating a website it is an option to use meta tags. Meta Tags are placed on the header of the site after the title tag. These tags are used by search engines so that they can more accurately list your site in their list. Although you do not have to use these tags, I suggest it so that your site can be better ranked in the search engines search and list. When people refer to meta tags they are often referring to meta description tag and meta keyword tag.

 These types of tags (meta description and meta keyword) are not seen by the users of your website. Rather they are read by the search engines, for the purpose of providing meta document data.  There are some important tags that you should know:

  • meta http-equiv tag
  • meta refresh tag
  • the meta robots tag
  • the meta copyright tag
  • meta author tag

These tags are used to give search engines “spider directions” to other parts of your site or other sites.

The next question on your mind might be what do meta tags look like? There are a lot of different types of meta tags, a general tag may look something like this:

<META name=”something” content=”something else”> 

However you do not need the</META> at the end of this tag, like some HTML requires such as a <B> BOLD </B>. Just make sure that there are no breaks because some search engines are a bit testy with breaks. 

Remember that there is no need to file every single page of your website, you only need to do the important or relevant ones. Also, make sure that your description tag does not simply restate your title page, but what the page is about almost like a summary in just a couple of words. Finally, a tag can be in the creation of dynamic documents.