What are the benefits of using Meta Tag?

Hi friends recently I have plan to create a website, so I am using the PHP and mySql to create this website and also some of the JavaScript is also included in this Projects. So this website I am creating for the purpose of SEO based, so I just want to know more uses and the benefits for using the Meta Tag for creating this website. So guys what are the importance of this Mata tag, how it can be useful as a SEO point of view? And what are the benefits I get by using this Meta tag in my Website? So if you have any of the suggestion or any of the ideas about the use and the benefits for this Meta Tag then please let me know. Your reply will be appreciated

According to my information the Meta Tag is the important Tag that has to be used in any of the SEO based website to get the Page Ranking. Almost 40% of the page visitors are due to this Meta Tag only, because the Meta Tag is only responsible to list you in the list for the Google search based on the Keyword that is searched by the users. The meta tag is only that describe the main category of your website.

This is one of the important Tags that help you to determine the main Keyword that will help you website to come in the ranking list in the Google search.

This is helpful Tag for the SEO based website to bring more traffic and visits of the user from across the internet.

This Tag is included in the Head section of the HTML coding.

This is one of the most important tag in SEO based website.

According to my experience, the Website most important tag is the TITLE Tag and the META Tag, because these only determine the main information about your Website to the search engine, which make the search engine easily to search for your website. The search engine can determine the main information and about the page with the help of these Tag. This is one of the power Tag for the SEO based website.

• The page's language can be set by using the META TAG,
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">
  
• The character set of the page is also set by this Meta Tag
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  
• These Meta Tag can also used for setting the time interval for refreshing the page for the specify time.
  <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="15"> <!—The page refresh after every 15 second - ->
  
• This Mata Tag is also used for redirecting the visitor to the specific page after the specific time interval.
  <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10; URL=http://www.techarena.biz">

So this are the few great use of the Mata Tag, that you can used in the Webpage.

According to my information this Tag is best to used for the ‘Search Engine Optimization’ and for the ‘Browser Behavior ‘.
For the customization of the website to be listed there in the search engines this Mata Tag is use.
So this Tag is used for improving the website ranking.

For setting the Browser behaviors you can make the use of these Mata Tag. By using the Mata Tag you can set the certain Property of the Browsers. The character set, language, page refreshing and redirection of the Page to different URL is possible with this Tag. So this is the Powerful Tag for the SEO and page ranking purpose.