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In these articles I’ll try to explain all there is to know about
META tags and their important role in any website.

META tags are extremely useful for your site as they help it get
listed in search engines, identify the creator of the page, what
HTML specs the site has, etc etc etc. Meta tags can even help to
avoid the page that has it being framed! These were just few
examples of the wide range of uses meta tags can have. Their
information most common uses are: by browsers to display the
site correctly; and by search engines spiders to better list
your site in their index. Read more to get to know them better
one by one, how to use them and in what search engines they are
recognized.

Where to put the META Tags?

Meta tags are always inserted within the
container. To get a better perspective how it is done you can
check the source code of any given web site! Usualy you can do
this by right clicking your mouse on the site and chose “View
Source Code”.

Categories of META tags

You’ll find two kinds of META tags available for use! The
HTTP-EQUIV and the normal (usual) META tags.

Let’s start with the nomal ones and let the HTTP-EQUIV for
later! Within the regular META tags let’s start with the most
importat ones for Search Engines indexing… the ones that are
considered the vital ones in order to achieve better results and
better rankings.

- Description Tag

Syntax:

This tag is used to provide search engines with a description of
the page they are indexing. If you analyse the results of any
search at Google or Yahoo you’ll notice that there’s the title
of the page in bold and a small description below! The title of
the page is take from the