SEO Glossary of Terms: Meta Tag

Meta Tag: HTML elements used to provide a summary of content in a web document. The meta tags should always be within the head block of a web page. Most search engine spiders use meta tags to index web documents they spider, and most spiders will only accept meta tags with approximately 500 characters for the keywords meta tag.

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Meta Tag Optimization
What are Meta Tags?
What Search Engines Look for

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