Meta tags and How To Use HTML Meta Tags - Basis

They are information inserted into the "head" area of your web pages. The Meta tag in html is not a required tag when you're creating your web pages. Meta tags, can tell a browser what "character set" to use and also meta tags description or keywords you need for some meta-tag search engines.

Notice: Don't mess up HTML with XHTML, for XHTML are other rules!
 

Example:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<meta name="Author" content="your name">
<meta name="copyright" content="&copy; 2005 your name" >
<meta name="Classification" content="Internet">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days">
<meta name="description" lang= "en-us" content="description of your site in english language">
<meta name="description" lang= "nl" content="beschrijving van uw webpagina in het Nederlans">
<meta name="keywords" lang= "en-us" content="your, keywords, here, ......., ........, ">
<meta name="keywords" lang= "nl" content="uw, zoekwoorden, hier, ......., ........, ">
<title>...</title>
</head>
<body>

 



Links:
w3.org : Introduction to the structure of an HTML document