Meta tags are a part of the HTML code (HTML tags) for your website and describe
any page's content to the search engine crawlers.  Meta tags are essential to
all search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Yandex, Duck Duck Go, and Bing.

The phrasing "meta tag" makes it sound like these work behind the scenes away
from reader's eyes. After all, that's the case with meta keywords. However, the
title and tight summary you see on a SERP is often pulled from how the writer
set up their title tags and met