types of meta tag

In HTML, meta tags or meta elements are tags placed within the head section of your code that help define the contents of a web page. For example, a description meta tag is used by Internet search engines to display a description of your page in their search results. Each meta element must contain an opening and closing <meta> tag. The sections below list and describe the different types of meta tags.
 
The importance of Meta-tags is that they provide info to the search engines and users about what the web page is, there are different types of Meta tags they are:

Title Tag
Language Meta Tag
Character Set Meta Tag
Keywords Meta Tag
Description Meta Tag
Classification Meta Tag
Rating Meta Tag
Distribution Meta Tag
Robots Meta Tag
Publisher Meta Tag
Revisit-After Meta Tag
Creator Meta Tag
Verification Meta Tags
 
Meta tags are snippets of text that describe a page’s content; the meta tags don’t appear on the page itself, but only in the page’s code.
There are 4 types of meta tag-
1. Meta Keywords Attribute
2. Title Tag
3. Meta Description Attribute
4. Meta Robots Attribute
 
Meta elements are tags used in HTML or XHTML documents to provide structured metadata about a Web page. They are part of a web page's head section. Multiple Meta elements with different attributes can be used on the same page. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes.
Types:-
The keywords attribute
The description attribute
The language attribute
Then robots attribute
 
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