What are meta tags used for?

Meta tags are used to provide information about the html document .  for eg .  for search engine you can provide some keywords in meta tag. 

 <meta name="keywords"  content="jobs,vacancies">

Or it can be used to put the description about the page

 <meta name ="description" content="Website for job posting">

It is also used to provide the character set information used for the page.

The information provided in this tag is not displayed on the page instead parsed by the machine.

Hope this helps.

Metadata is data (information) about data.

The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable.

Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata.

The metadata can be used by browsers (how to display content or reload page), search engines (keywords), or other web services.

There are two important meta tags:

• Meta description tags
• Meta keyword tags

Some search engines may display the meta description as a part of the search results, but the meta keyword tags should not appear in search results.

The general consensus among SEO experts is that metatags are dead. Even so, many of these same experts continue to use metatags in their own sites.

For Google, adding the description meta tag does not result in a boost in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs), but the description might be used for the description for your SERP listings in Google.

Yahoo! says, they use the Keyword Meta Tag when it ranks a page. Hence it makes sense to add one for Yahoo! and any other minor search engines that still use.

Hi Murad,

Thank you for the invitation

There are many types of Meta Tags, each one provides a special type of information about )your webpage (I prefer to use webpage than website

The main use of each meta tag is to help the Search Engines, Browses, and sometime your . servers to understand, indexing and sorting your webpage and its content

and you can use meta tags to build relationships  (link) with other websites or service providers.

Thank you

Basm allah alrahman alrahim

read what in this link carfully and you will understan , but you may skip html tag title , meta name description and meta name keywords

The link is http://www.metatags.info/html_tag_title_tag

Hello Murad

All the above answers are correct.

Meta tags are used to provide information/instructions about the specific page to search engine bots when they crawl the page.