What are META tags?
Meta tags are hidden tags in the head area of your HTML document that contain data read by Search Engine Spiders. Users can only see the title which shows at the top of your browser, the other tags are for search engine optimization.
Sample Meta Tags
<html>
<head>
<title>Your page Title</title>
<meta name="description" content="Here is the
description shown in the search engines" />
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords here,
between commas" />
</head>
The contents of the Title tag iaredisplayed by the browser at the top of the browser window. Search engines use the Title tag to provide a link to the sites which match the query made by the user. Having keywords in the Title tag of a page can significantly increase the search engine ranking of the page for those keywords.
Invisible strings of code your web developer can place inside your home page which can facilitate more chance that your site will get noticed by robots (aka meta crawlers) when registered on some search engines. Meta tags come in two basic types, meta description tags and meta keyword tags. Their actual degree of usefulness is widely debated and probably secondary to refined means of promoting your site to a specific target audience.
Generally refers to any word or phrase the user might search for in order to find a website or a page. Each variation of a keyword, such as the plural form of the word, is treated like a separate keyword.phrases (i.e., a string of multiple keywords) is generally used interchangeably.
