Meta tags

[Sangeeta1]

"Meta Tags" are information inserted into the "head" area of your web pages. Other than the title tag ,information in the head area of your web pages is not seen by those viewing your pages in browsers. Instead, meta information in this area is used to communicate information that a human visitor may not be concerned with.

[amritrr]

Yes, meta tags can help search engine spider to ascertain the kind of content that the web page has, in turn helping the spider to index the pages accordingly. A few meta tags that can be used on a web are <title><description><keywords><author><distributio n><robots> etc.

[Pauly]

Meta Tags are the source which contains Title,Description and Keywords of a website and its not for human beings, its for search engine bots but title tag is visible for google.

[henery008]

meta tags are not mean for end user but they are important for search engine. Proper meta tagging is very much necessary.

[seo-2009]

if you use proper meta description tag for your pages, it will be displayed by search engines and write the tag for users not for search engines.

[CherryMahajan]

Meta Tags are html or XHTML tags used to provide structured meta data about a site.These tags are always placed in the head section of HTML document. Meta Tags are usually used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes.
These have four valid attributes-:
content
http-equiv
name
scheme

[Smooth=1]

thanks for the info guys...

[Cwastorix]

I have heard that meta tags as rule worthless for the SEO. But I'm sure that it infrluence on the keyword density.

[bobprog]

Meta tags are totally for search systems, they identify and optimize text, but meta tags are visible for users and readers too. You may view the code of source page at any time.

[Cristian]

Be sure to create and include meta tags on every page, if you really want to increase your website`s page rank.