Meta Tag Basics

What is a Meta Tag?
Meta tags and meta information provide additional information about your web pages without necessarily showing that content to the reader. Meta tags are used for many different things, including redirects, SEO, and storing information. Find out about meta tags in this article.

How to Add Meta Tags to Web Pages
Meta tags can help with search engine optimization and cataloging your web pages. But only if you add the meta tags correctly. It's easy to add new meta tags to your web pages. This article will show you how.

Why Use Meta Tags?
Meta tags are a useful tool for web designers. They allow you to control aspects of the web page that your readers don't see and provide additional information to tools like search engines.

Basic Meta Tags
If you have no other meta tags on your site, you should have these.

Magic with Meta Tags
Meta tags are an easy way to get more notice from some search engines. Find out how to use them.

Back to Basics: Meta Tags
Don't get caught up in the hype over XHTML 1.0 and XML. Make sure that your pages have good meta tags then worry about hyping them.

How to Use HTML Meta Tags
Meta tags are useful in some search engines, but not all. Search Engine Watch has a clear article on how to use meta tags to best effect.

Meta Tag Guide
There are many meta tags you can use to enhance your pages. The Wired 2000 Submit Corner discusses them and when you should or should not use them.

Write Your Meta Tags
Keep your Web pages high in the search engines by writing a strong list of meta keywords and synonyms.