What is a meta tag?

Meta elements are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such elements are placed as tags in the head section of an HTML document.

The importance of meta tags in SEO

The two most common uses of meta elements on the Web are to provide a description and to provide meta keywords for a web page. This data may then be used by search engines (such as Google or Yahoo!) to generate and display a list of search results matching a given query.

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