Meta tags do not display anything on your page! Meta tags are included in the <head> section after the <title> tag. (The title tag is the first tag that search engines use. So be sure that it is placed before the meta tags.) Meta tags are used by search engines to identify, index and catalog the information on your page. Remember the searches that we did earlier this week? Web pages can be submitted to search engines to be "registered" or included in the search engine's database.
Meta tags identify the following items for search engines:
To identify the name of the web editor that you used to create the page, use the following tag:
<meta name="Generator" content="Notepad.txt">
Web page editors insert this tag automatically.
To create a description that search engines display on search results pages, use the following tag:
<meta name="description" content="A description of the information on your page">
If you do not include a meta tag description the search engine will list the first couple of lines from your home page. If you want to control what information is displayed in the summary provided by the search engine then be sure to include a meta tag description.
To identify yourself as the author of your page, use the following tag:
<meta name="author" content="Your Name">
Notice in the examples that the first part of the meta tags are all the same <meta name=". What makes meta tags different is the value of the name attirbute and the value of the content attribute.
Assignment: Add the four meta tags to your hello.html code and save the file as meta.html.