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Identifying authors and conversations

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Identifying authors and conversations

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- [Instructor] If you've heard of a meta tag before, it's generally the meta keywords and the meta description tags that you've encountered. The author tag is less common, but it's something you may want to include on your website. First, let's focus on meta description and meta keywords. You've probably heard all kinds of conflicting information about these elements. Are they used by search engines anymore? How important are they? Can they always say the same thing? First, let's cover the formation of the meta description and meta keywords tags. As you know, it's a meta tag with a name attribute, with a value of description or keywords. Following that, the content attribute will hold the actual keywords, or the actual description of the webpage. Here we have a meta description tag, and the content is that "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is a romantic novel published in 1813. If we were to do this as a keyword tag, it would look something like this. So we have a meta name of…

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