Meta tags are keywords that are set within the HTML code of a website, which help explain what the site is about. They were of great importance ~10 years ago, but over time got to be abused by sketchy programmers and are no longer of any particular importance.
While some argue that you should put in meta tags even though search engines ignore them, it may be for the best to leave them out so that you don’t give competitors an easy way of seeing exactly which keywords you’re trying to rank for.
Microblogs are platforms for distributing bite-sized chunks of content. By limiting the length of a post to just a few words, the posters can get a message out extremely quickly and concisely, and readers can take in a huge number of posts in a short amount of time.
The most popular microblog platform has always been Twitter, which has been the perfect space for up-to-the-minute news announcements, comedy one-liners, and excessive and unnecessary pictures of people’s lunches.
Other microblogging platforms include:
Tumblr
FriendFeed
Plurk
Indenti.ca
Google Buzz