What is a meta tag?   It is a hidden tag that is found in the head of an HTML document.  It supplies additional information about the document.

Don't be misled!  Meta tags are not "magic beans" that will sprout your site to the top of the search pages.  They are like everything else...just a tool.  The meta tags will improve your position and standing in the search engines.  But only the ones that actually use them.  If meta tags are used in conjunction with other SEO strategies, they will help you further your site standings. 

Another thing to remember: most search engines look at the body of text on your pages, as well as the page title. They take this information as higher relevance than any Meta tags. So, be sure to always have a relevant title on your pages, and relevant content in the body of the page. This will improve your rankings more than just meta tags alone.

Meta Tags will always be found in name/value pair. It can be any valid string, which you should enclose in quotes. Here are some examples of meta tags, the first two are the primary ones used for search engine optimization and the third is to tell search engines not to spirder a page.

<meta name="description" content="Decription of page is wrote here" />

<meta name="keywords" content="Keywords are place here and each keyword or kewword phase should be seperated by a comma" />

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

How to Use a Meta Tag

Meta tags are included in the HEAD of an HTML document. If you are using Meta tags to improve your standing in search engines, then you should focus on your description and keywords.

The description tag -  The description tag is used to describe what your page is about. Search Engines that use it will supply the content of this tag when displaying the search results.

The keywords tag - Keywords help search engines to categorize your site, and to allow people to find your pages more quickly. The Keywords should be in order from most importent to least inportent for the given page. Also don't put keywords that are not listed in your content on the page. You can even go as far as only putting the keywords that are found in the title tag and heading tags.

The Robots tag - This tag is used primarily to tell search engines not to spirder a certain page.