Why META tags are important????

From Me,

Meta Tags are important to promote your website and help to make your site SEO friendly. You can use different meta attributes as your requirements and take the benefits.......Try and explore them.

From the Internet,

Meta tags are information entered into the <> area of an HTML document They do not display in the browser window. Rather, they give instructions to the browser and allow some degree of control over how your pages are indexed by search engines. Meta tags can also allow the voluntary rating of sites for the benefit of filtering software for adult content such as Surf Watch.

Here some useful links:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

http://www.life.uiuc.edu/edtech/html/meta.html

http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~cckhrb/webdev/code/html/meta_w3c.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_tag

http://searchenginewatch.com/2167931