Daily SEO Tips, November 15, 2010. "By definition, a meta tag is a code that helps the search engine find and categorize the content and data that can be found on a specific web page. When the internet first became popular in the 1990′s, websites relied heavily on meta tags. As such, a lot of people discovered that they could manipulate the search engines by feeding them information via the meta tags for commercial purposes, and as such, meta tags are not seen as being as important. But that is not to say that we can ignore meta tags altogether. Although not all of the search engines regard meta tags as being as important as they used to be, some of them still look to the meta tag when they are indexing a website. So it is best to use good meta tags, as having them is better than not having them at all..."
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