A few years ago, meta tags were important for search engine optimization. However, they have been abused and are usually ignored by almost all search engines (including Google, Yahoo, and Live Search).
The most important SEO tags you can include in your (X) HTML are the <title> and <meta name="description"...> tags.
<title> should usually be what you want the search engine to list your page.<meta name="description"...> can sometimes give the search engine an idea of ββhow to describe your page when indexing it.
However, using these two tags will not necessarily matter to increase the visibility of your site in search engine listings. For more information on this aspect, Google has a good SEO section on their website.
Travis Apr 14 '09 at 16:38 2009-04-14 16:38
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