The meta tags contain information which is not seen on the screen. This could be information for Search Engines, page rating classification (ie: mature) and even page behaviour. Meta tags are placed between the head tags. It is not necessary to include any meta tags ! But if you want to be well placed in a Search Engines listings you should at least include the first two of the following meta tags.

         META TAGS
1. < META HTTP-EQUIV="description" CONTENT="A short description of the page would go here." >

       Between the CONTENT quotations enter a short description of the page. (about 50 words max) This may appear on some Search Engines as a description of your page.

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2. < META HTTP-EQUIV="keywords" CONTENT="A list of keywords" >

       Between the CONTENT quotations enter a list of keywords a user would enter in a Search Engine if they looking for a site or page like yours. The keywords or phrases should be separated by commas. Keywords can be repeated but not more than a couple of times and they can be case sensitive.

3. < META NAME="generator" CONTENT="Name of software used to generate this page." >

       Between the CONTENT quotations enter name and version of the software used to generate the HTML document.

4. < META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="3 ;url=http://www.yourpageaddress.com" >

       Between the CONTENT quotations enter a delay time in seconds (0 to ~) before redirecting the page. Then a semicolon. For the url enter the url of the page you want to redirect the user to. A warning here that most search engines do not like a page with a quick redirect.

5. < META HTTP-EQUIV="author" CONTENT="Authors name, E-mail Address" >

       Between the CONTENT quotations you may enter the name of the Author or\and E-mail address. But a word of warning, placing an e-mail address on a page could increase your flow of junkmail (Spam).

6. < META NAME="Copyright" CONTENT="Copyright holders name" >
7. < META NAME="Publisher" CONTENT="Publishers name" >
8. < META NAME="Distribution" CONTENT="Global" >

       Between the CONTENT quotations you may enter global or local. If it is set to local the Search Engines will not index the page.

9. < META NAME="Rating" CONTENT="General" >

       I believe the variables here are General, Parental and Adult.

10. < META HTTP-EQUIV=Expires CONTENT="Sun, 21 Apr 2001 18:00:00 GMT" >

        If you wish your page to have an expiry date enter it here.

11. < META NAME="language" CONTENT="English" >

        Enter the language of your page here.

12. < META NAME="robots" CONTENT="all" >

            Variables
        index (Page will be indexed by Search Engines)
        noindex (Page will not be indexed)
        follow (page's links should be followed by Search Engines)
        nofollow (page's links should not be followed)
        all (index & follow)
        none (noindex & nofollow)

13. < META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="45 days" >

        This tells a Search Engine how often to visit your site and check for changes.

14. < META NAME="classification" CONTENT="Club" >

        How would you classify your page? Is it for a club, sports, music, religious, etc...

15. < META HTTP-EQUIV="title" CONTENT="Title" >

        Same as page title.