Meta tags are on the out these days but some search engines still use them.

Here is a list of the more important meta tags:

• Description
• Keywords
• Copyright
• Revisit-After
• Robots
• Audience
• Author 

Description

<meta name="description" content="Type a description of your site here.">

Keywords

<meta name="keywords" content="Keywords associated with your site, seperate with commas">

Copyright

<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Company Name">

Revisit-After 

<meta name="revisit-after" content="Number of days (eg; 5 days)">

Robots  

<meta name="robots" content="Tells robots how to index your site. (eg; index,follow.  This means the bots will index the page then follow on from the links on that page.)">

 Author

<meta name="author" content="Name of the site Author">

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