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Meta Tags

Meta – a prefix meaning about. 

A meta tag is used by a web author to give information about the page he’s writing.  While most of these tags are not directly visible to the visitor, they can be very important to how the browser views the page and how search engines index it.

Usage
There are two different types of meta tags, but their usage is almost the same.  You will use either <meta name=”name” content=”content”> or <meta http-equiv=”name” content=”content”>.  The only difference is that the http-equiv tags are the same as the HTTP headers that are returned from your server, where the other option is used for tags that don’t have a specific HTTP header.  If that confused you, don’t worry – I’ll list the correct usage for each tag.

Search Engines & Meta Tags
Using meta tags to improve your search engine position

Page Information
Giving information about your page to your visitor.

Turning off Internet Explorer "Features"
Disable a couple irritating features of Internet Explorer

Refreshing the Page
Using meta tags to automatically refresh your page

 
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