Idiots guide to meta-tags?

Kerryatter

I wonder if anyone can help? I recently set up my husbands website for his business but we're having problems with the meta tags - I have no idea how they work or how to apply them to our site. We're with 123reg and have paid extra to have our ratings boosted but I don't know what I'm doing! Could some kindly soul please take pity on this dunce and point me in the right direction please

many thanks

totalsolutions

Googled from http://www.submitexpress.com/metatags.html

A META Tag is the hidden text placed in the HEAD section of your HTML page. META Tags are used by most major search engines to index websites based on their keywords and descriptions. It is very important to use META Tags as well as a good TITLE if you expect to be found in most search engines. However, META Tags are not the only thing search engines will look at when ranking sites. Some search engines will ignore META Tags completely. Most search engines will also index your body text.