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hi there..just wanna ask.. what is the use of meta tag?

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is right that meta tags carry page metadata read by browsers and bots. A few directly affect UX: set your character encoding and viewport early so pages render consistently across devices. You can also set the browser UI color on supported mobile browsers.

<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <meta name="theme-color" content="#0a84ff">
</head>

For search, the meta description can be used as the snippet users see in results, but it does not boost ranking; write it for humans first meta description snippets. Major engines ignore the keywords meta tag entirely . To control indexing/crawling per page, use the robots meta; example below. Always double-check you are not shipping noindex on live pages.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

, what you are thinking of is site ownership verification via a one-time meta tag issued by the search engine . 's ICRA example refers to a labeling system that was discontinued in 2010, so it is not something to rely on today Internet Content Rating Association. For rich share previews on social platforms, add Open Graph meta tags to control the shared title, description, and image Open Graph protocol.

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Member Avatar for yangyang

To add in extra meta information / data of the web page? Such as what this page is about, who created it and so forth.

Member Avatar for hanzooi

oh i see....thanks, bro yang!

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special purpose fields like the ICRA ratings system end up in meta tags

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Meta tag is used for describe your sites and validate your sites with search engines. It is extensible. :)

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