What are meta tags?

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  1. gaurav12

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    Please give me some useful information about meta tags....
     
  2. siljajoseph

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    Meta tags are HTML tags that provide information about a web page to web crawlers/programs that visit your website. They are not visible to normal human visitors.
     
  3. vijaytech

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    meta tags are those where you add keywords in it.
     
  4. Kevin Broad

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    Well, in my point of view Meta tags are the most important thing to be taken by anyone to the on page SEO.
     
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    These are meta data. Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page
     
  6. oliver321

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    Meta tags are the HTML tags basically. The tag holds the page inforamtion like its title and description. They play a vital role from SEO point of view.
     
  7. Nathan112

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    Meta tags are Html tags that provide information about a web page that visit your website. They take a variety of forms and serve a variety of purposes. In the context of SEO, they are usually referred to the meta description and the meta keywords tag.
     

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