What is Meta tag and its type?

Meta tags are HTML codes that are inserted into the header on a web page, after the title tag. In the context of search engine optimization, when people refer to meta tags, they are usually referring to the meta description tag and the meta keywords tag.
 
A meta tag is a tag (that is, a coding statement) in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes some aspect of the contents of a Web page. There are many meta tags and html-tags and obviously they don't all influence the search result.
 
Meta Tags are codes used in the web page source HTML. It describes what the page content is about and thus help the search engine identify relevance of your page content in a search. Just like tags used in a blog or article, meta tags help improve the visibility of your web page by describing its content, with the only difference that they are a part of the HTML and can only be seen by the search engine.
Different types of meta tags, used in SEO are:
Title tags
Description tags
Keyword tags
Robot tags
 
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