The meta tags are used to describes the information about the HTML page. The meta Tags are very help full for the search engines to understand and categorize your web pages. when people search then your meta tags provide the complete information about the contents of your page. There are many different types of meta tags that can be used for many different purposes.
Below we discus different meta tags and there function :
Meta description provide the main purpose of your webpage.
for Example
<meta name="description" content="learning hints is a learning website of different IT Subject">
if you not specify the meta description then search engines will generate a description from the content of your webpage.
Meta author describe the author the page for example
<meta name="author" content="Tauqeer Shah">
The charset meta tag tell to web browser about the character encoding of your content. An HTML page can have only a single charset. For most web pages, you should use the UTF-8 character encoding.
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="copyright" content="Learning Hints" />
Meta copyrights tag protect your photos and the text on your website.
<meta name="copyright" content="the Meta Tags Company">
Keyword meta tag is very help full for search engine. Search engine put your provide keyword in indexing. Its create great impact to improve your ranking.
<meta name="keywords" content="Text tutorials, video tutorials, notes, exam papers">
This meta attribute define the language of the webpage.
<META NAME="language" CONTENT="English">
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