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META tags are HTML
tags. They can be used to identify Web page author, HTML
specifications for your Web page, the keywords and description
of your Web page, and the refresh parameter (which can be
used to cause the page to reload itself, or to load another
page).
There are two types
of META tags: HTTP-EQUIV and META tags with a NAME attribute.
META HTTP-EQUIV
tags are the equivalent of HTTP headers and are usually used
to control or direct the actions of Web
browsers.
META tags with a NAME
attribute are used for META types which do not correspond
to normal HTTP headers. They
provide a
useful way to control your summary in some search engines.
There are several meta tags, but the most important for
search engine indexing are the description and keywords
tags. The
description tag returns a description of the page in
place of the summary the search engine would ordinarily create.
The keywords tag provides keywords for the search engine
to associate with your page.
Example:
<
META NAME="description"
CONTENT="description goes here">
<
META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3,keyword4"> |
