HTML Tutorial

Meta Element

Meta elements are used to specify information about the webpage that a search engine (such as Google) uses for indexing and search purposes.

Good use of meta elements helps to increase a websites likely-hood of being a top search result.

Attributes

Attribute Value
name author
description
keywords
content Textual content appropriately for each name value.

Example

<html>
	<head>
		...
		<meta> name="author" content="Harry Kavallos" />
		<meta> name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript,PHP" />
	</head>
	...
</html>