MetaTags in HTML

MetaTags are tags in the HTML script which contain the important keywords or key phrases in the pertaining page. MetTags are mostly useful for optimizing the website according to the popular search engines’ requirements.

The two important keywords according to search engine point of view are ‘keywords’ and ‘description’.


Keywords Tag:

This tag contains all the keywords of a page by which you want the page to be searched.

<META name="KEYWORDS" content="visual, builder, visualbuilder">


The Description tag:

The description tag is the most important tag. It gives a description of the page to the search engine. The search engine shows this description in the search results.

<META name="KEYWORDS" content="html, webdesign, javascript">


Tags you can create:

There are certain tags which you can create. For instance, if you want to tell the search engine about the person who created the page so you can add the tag:

<META name="AUTHOR" content="Javabill">          


Similarly, you can add any other information you want.


Refresh Meta Tag:

The refresh Meta Tag is used for refreshing the page after a specificied time.

<META http-equiv="REFRESH" content="10; url=http://www.visualbuilder.com">

As you can see, the content is equal to 10 that means the page will be refreshed after 10 seconds.

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