A special HTML tag that provides information about the page, but is not seen by users. The two most common types of meta tags are the meta description tags and meta keywords tags.

Meta description tags provide a brief description of the webpage. The meta keywords tag lists other words that a visitor might be searching for, like meta tags, meta tag, HTML and meta tags, tags, SEO.

Both of these tags are located in the heading section of your HTML code, usually below the title.

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