Meta Tags Explained-Create and Check Your Meta Tags Published by stephen cope Submitted: 13 September,2004 Meta Tags Explained-Create and Check Your Meta Tags Meta Tags are used to describe information about the document to search engine robots, browsers and other automatic programs. Here we will examine the most important Meta tags and how to create and check them. Although they are not difficult to create manually there are tools available for generating and checking Meta Tags that make it easier for those not familiar with HTML. Meta tags are contained between  the tags near the top of the page and are invisible to the end user. Although there are many meta tags we really only need to concern ourselves  with the 4 commonly used tags: Title Description Keywords Robots Due to the fact that the meta tags contain HTML code the Meta Tags explained article is continued on my website.  Website Ranking/Position and Meta Tags Although not all search engines make use of the Meta Tags in the same way Meta Tags are still important for achieving a good Website Ranking. As it is a difficult and time consuming process of tracking which search engine uses what Tag and the importance it places on that tag then simply assume they all use them equally and make the best use of them. Please don't leave them blank! About the Author Stephen Cope is a freelance trainer and the Webmaster at - making a website and IncrediMail and Outlook Express Updates.