HTML Meta Tags

The Meta tags are not compulsory tags for HTML or web pages. Meta tags provide information of web page to the search engines. If you put Meta tags in your web page it should be more briefly, these meta tags is used by search engines to index your web pages into their server. If you put brief & more specific meta tags then search engines put your web pages into accurate indexes.

Basic Meta tags are Keywords & Description that content length should be less than & equal to near about 255 characters.

Keywords Meta tag is used to define keywords of web page.

<meta name="Keywords" content="HTML,PHP,ASP">


Description Meta tag is to used define description of web page.

<meta name="Description" content="IT Help Desk">


Revised Meta tag is used to define last update of web page

<meta name="revised" content="01/11/08" />


Refresh Meta tag used to update web page every 10 seconds.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10" />