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Publishing Your Site and Getting Noticed 14

8 Type content=”?”,
replacing? with a brief
paragraph describing the
site.

9 Type />.

The tags have been
added to the page.

Do search engines still use <meta> tags?

Google has stated publically that they do not, but

other search engines might. Even though <meta>

tags might be ignored, it does not hurt your site to

add them for those engines that read them.

What else can the <meta> tag be used for?

The <meta> tag can be used for a variety of other

purposes, such as embedding your name as the

author or adding the revision date. In fact, you can

set the name and content attributes to any value

you want.

6 Type <meta.

7 Type name=
”description”.

6 7

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