What is Meta Tag?

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Meta tags or Meta Data are HTML elements require to provide a uniform structure for a website.

These are various meta data used in Meta Tags
Title
Keyword
Description
Author
Google site verification
etc

We can use 7 meta tags in a page

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monica_00147;76264 wrote: What is Meta Tag?

A meta tag is a tag (that is, a coding statement) in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes some aspect of the contents of a Web page. The information that you provide in a meta tag is used by search engines to index a page so that someone searching for the kind of information the page contains will be able to find it. The meta tag is placed near the top of the HTML in a Web page as part of the heading.

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You should set an individual meta tag on every page on your website

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Meta tags are the HTML elements which provide meta data information of web page to search engine; like: description,title,keywords etc.. It is placed inside head tag of web page. As Seo point of view each web page should have unique title and description.

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Meta tag is html tag which is used for source of the website and its used by google robot to searching the site with respect to meta tag.

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ninabillian;76291 wrote: Meta tags or Meta Data are HTML elements require to provide a uniform structure for a website.

These are various meta data used in Meta Tags
Title
Keyword
Description
Author
Google site verification
etc

We can use 7 meta tags in a page

Aside from this important meta tags, you should also consider the following meta tags as they are the tags that you can use to control (somehow) how search engines see you site:

canonical tag
NOODP tag

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The META tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable. Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata. The META tag always goes inside the head element. The metadata can be used by browsers (how to display content or reload page), search engines (keywords), or other web services.

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I agree with johnywalter. Meta tags are really important since most search engines like google are using this information to provide snippet for users.

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monica_00147;76264 wrote: What is Meta Tag?

Meta tag is provide information of web page i.e. who is created web page, what about page, how many times updated, which keyword represents the page content. Meta tags provide information to the search engines. It is used in section of the HTML web page. Meta tag is not displayed on the web page.

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monica_00147;76264 wrote: What is Meta Tag?

As on my knowledge Meta tags are HTML codes that are inserted into the header on a web page, after the title tag.

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Meta tags is HTML code which that is insert into the header on your web page after your title tags. When you refer to meta tags , you are referring to the meta description tag and meta keywords tag. Search engine read you by your using of keywords on your web page . This is very important things in search engine.

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Meta tags provide information about your Web page to search engine robots so that the search engine can better understand what your site is about. Meta tags provide this information in a format that the web crawlers/spiders that visit your site can understand.

Re: What is Meta Tag?

A meta tag is a tag (that is, a coding statement) in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes some aspect of the contents of a Web page. The information that you provide in a meta tag is used by search engines to index a page so that someone searching for the kind of information the page contains will be able to find it. The meta tag is placed near the top of the HTML in a Web page as part of the heading.

There are several kinds of meta tags, but the most important for search engine indexing are the keywords meta tag and the description meta tag. The keywords meta tag lists the words or phrases that best describe the contents of the page. The description meta tag includes a brief one- or two-sentence description of the page. Both the keywords and the description are used by search engines in adding a page to their index. Some search engines also use the description to show the searcher a summary of the page's contents.

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Meta tags are the HTML elements that provide meta data information about web page of web sites, which are mainly the keywords of your site, meta tags are very useful in on page optimization. so on it could be the main part of your seo process.