META: "the necessity to designate a new but related discipline
designed to deal critically with the original one." META tags
are rudimentary indicators designed for search engine spiders to
"deal critically,"or use as basic information for indexing your
site in their database. How are Meta tags useful META tags are a
useful way to summarize the contents of a web page and to
facilitate the correct cataloging of that page within major
search engines without the data really being seen by the user.
How everything works When the spider of a search engine locates
your web page it will need to index it, adding it to its
searchable database. Some search engines will index all of the
words in your document and will use the first 250 words as a
short abstract to index your site. In the absence of any of this
information, META tags help search engines index your site by
providing specific information as the META tag source. When
someone searches When someone performs a search request at a
search engine that supports MET