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Added meanings for meta tags in README
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Most info for the meta tags found at: http://www.metatags.org/
Info for deprecated and lesser known tags found here: http://www.johnfdoherty.com/meta-descriptions-that-will-not-help-seo/
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JoshuaHess committed May 31, 2016
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<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<!-- The above 3 meta tags *must* come first in the head; any other head content must come *after* these tags -->

<!-- Name of web application (only should be used if the website is used as an app) -->
<meta name="application-name" content="Application Name">

<!-- Short 3 or 4 sentence description of website: included in search engine results -->
<meta name="description" content="150 chars">

<!-- Short description of your sites subject -->
<meta name="subject" content="your website's subject">

<!-- Controls what pages crawlers are allowed to index on your site -->
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow,noodp">

<!-- Works the same as the robots meta tag, but exclusively for Google -->
<meta name="googlebot" content="index,follow">

<!-- Tells the Google search engine to not show the sitelinks search box -->
<meta name="google" content="nositelinkssearchbox">

<!-- Verifies ownership of the Search Console for Google -->
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="verification_token">

<!-- Used to name software used to build the website (i.e. - Wordpress, Dreamweaver) -->
<meta name="generator" content="program">

<!-- Very short sentence describing the purpose of the website -->
<meta name="abstract" content="">

<!-- Describes the topic of the website -->
<meta name="topic" content="">

<!-- Brief summary of the company or purpose of the website -->
<meta name="summary" content="">

<!-- A deprecated tag that does the same as the keywords meta tag -->
<meta name="classification" content="business">

<!-- Full domain name or web address -->
<meta name="url" content="https://example.com/">

<!-- Does the same as URL, older and not supported -->
<meta name="identifier-URL" content="https://example.com/">


<meta name="directory" content="submission">

<!-- Does the same function as the keywords tag -->
<meta name="category" content="">

<!-- Makes sure your website shows up in all countries and languages -->
<meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide">

<!-- Does the same as the coverage tag -->
<meta name="distribution" content="Global">

<!-- Gives a general age rating based on sites content -->
<meta name="rating" content="General">

<!-- Allows control over how referrer information is passed -->
<meta name="referrer" content="never">

<!-- Allows control over where resources are loaded from -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src 'self'">

<!-- Disable automatic detection and formatting of possible phone numbers -->
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