Meta tags: How to use them.
Internet January 27th, 2008
Meta tags are special HTML tags that can be used to carry information, which can be read by some search engines. In the early years of the World Wide Web, search engines used there meta tags to rank web pages. Today, the importance of meta tags has decreased to a large extent. However, they should still be used a many smaller search engines still use them to rank pages.
The DESCRIPTION meta tag describes the web page to the search engines. The DESCRIPTION tag is important, so it is advisable to use it right after the title tag. Just write a sentence or two describing about the webpage.
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