There are so many meta tags used while creating a website, can anyone explain why they’re required and their usage?
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There are so many meta tags used while creating a website, can anyone explain why they’re required and their usage?
Meta tags are HTML
<meta>elements that provide metadata about your page. The most common ones are used to specify the page’s description and keywords that decribe its content. Both of these can be used by search engines to help index your page, although description has become more important than keywords.Another other use for meta tags is to emulate the behaviour of an HTTP response header, for example to set a page’s caching policy:
The HTML spec doesn’t define a standard set of properties for meta tags, but there’s a set of de facto tags that are generally accepted and implemented by browsers. Some of the most common ones are listed here – Useful HTML Meta Tags – with example usages.