HTML meta tags are used to describe the document. There are many attributes which can be used in meta tags. The most popular are as follows:

Description

The description meta type is used to describe the page and the information it contains. On many search engine results pages, the meta description is used as the description for the page.

<meta name=”description” content=”Page description goes here” />

Keywords

The keywords meta type is used to provide keyword terms to describe the content of the page. The keyword terms were originally meant to be used to help search engines in indexing pages.

<meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword list goes here” />

URL Refresh

The meta tag can also be used to redirect the page. This is done as follows:

<meta http-eqiv=”refresh” content=”0; url=somepage.htm” />

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