Meta Tags

Meta tags are the descriptive terms used within the HTML code of a web page that provides a summary of the page's content for a search engine spider. In the early days of the Internet, web masters often stuffed their Meta tags with popular keywords unrelated to their sites in order to gain traffic. The practice of abusing Meta tags in order to gain traffic on keywords unrelated to your site is considered Spam. Most search engines no longer use Meta tags in their ranking algorithms because of the past abuses of web masters. Often however, Meta tags may be used by search engines to display information about a web page in the search results pages.

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