Meta tags appear within the section of the page, before the . This means that they are just about the first thing that the search engine bot sees when it arrives on one of your web pages.
One of the important tags to include here is the title tag in the form:
Title of your page here
Strictly speaking this is not a meta tag (they all begin with the word meta), but it comes in the same place. Unlike the meta tags, the title tag is not optional. All correctly coded HTML pages must have title tags.
The following are the most commonly used SEO meta tags for an HTML page:
There are also other meta tags that tell search engines how to read your site, usually beginning: