I started html again yesterday and Im confused why were supposed to use meta tags. Its not on the site so why use it?

CodePudding user response：

There's a multitude of <meta /> tag types serving different purposes, but in essence there's two broad categories:

Search engine and other crawlers

• May use <meta name="description" content="Some description"> for the search results page (

  The rest of the metatags and what they do/did are in the above answer.