META tags (more correctly META elements) are a component of HTML and XHTML documents that provide an end user with information beyond that which is displayed in the content of the file, also known as meta data. The name “meta” comes from the Greek work for “self”, that is to say that it is self-referencing. Thus it is data that is inside of a file that simply describes the file. [...]
|
|
META Tags – A History and Overview of Current Use
 |
|