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What are Meta tags and do you have to use it in your site?

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Answer:

Meta tags are short records which you place in your HTML files to help search engines understand your page.

The most important meta tags for SEO purposes are:

* Description

* Keywords

The description meta tag is used by most search engines to identify the content of your page and by some search engines as a source for text to describe your page to the search engine user.

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The keywords Meta tag is used by many search engines, but not Google, to identify the contents of your page.

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Other common meta tags include:

* Title

* Author

* Owner

* Subject

* Rating

* Abstract

* Revisit-After

* Language

* Copyright

* Robots

* Expires

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