Meta Tags – Information placed in HTML tags (within the “head” section) that is that is passed to browsers and other software, but not seen by site visitors.

A few examples of meta tags are: title, keywords, author, language.

Search engines deprecated the importance of (or do not even utilize) many meta tags besides the “title” tag, due to misuse by Webmasters in the late 1990s.

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1. Keyword Meta Tag
2. Meta Keyword Tag
3. Title Meta Tag
4. Comment tags
5. Alt Tags

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