Today we will look at the last point. First off, let's look at the source HTML code for this page. We can do this by clicking on View on the browser's menu bar and selecting Source (Page Source if you use Netscape) from the drop down menu.

Locate the Meta Tag within the source for this page. It should look like this:

The Meta Tag lives within the Head tag of an HTML document. We will discuss the Head tag in detail next week, but for now knowing where Meta lives is good enough.

All HTML tags exist within a pair of angle brackets <  >, in the case of Meta, the tag would look like this:



The above tag is used to identify keywords that describe the site. This helps search engines with keyword searches.



The above tag is used to provide a description of the web site. This description may appear in the summary on a search engine.