What is the role of Meta tag in SEO?

[kalmakuran]

Hello friends,

What is the role of Meta tag in SEO?

[davidbeck]

Meta Tags have been one of the*most basic elements of SEO. It is must to know for every SEO professional that Meta tags are the words that are hidden in your code. People browsing your site will just not be able to see them.*The search engines still read them to have a simple, summarized idea of your site and to know what exactly your keywords are.
There are three important parts of Meta tags that you can use
a)Title
b)Description
c)Keywords

[Fli]

Here is the list of metatags that Google supports: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en
And here is explained that one can not improve the site by using keywords meta tag: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

[Barbara]

SEO meta data is what appears on search engine result pages (SERP) when a website comes up for certain queries. It includes the title of the page and its meta description (descriptive text below the title). The importance of meta tags is that the search engines read them in order to compare if these keywords and the description are related with the visible content.

[furosports]

Meta tags helps search engines to understand the nature of website or webpage.

[yatishpro]

Meta tag helps to a search engine to display results efficiently. If no meta tag menu it would take default content.

[Wiztech_Kerala]

Meta tags are snippets of text that describe a page's content. Meta tags are used to provide search engines with information about your page. To achieve high rankings, it has to do with relevance and user satisfaction, but including custom meta tags will influence users and increase your click-through-rate.