Meta-tags has been created in order to provide structured meta data about the page. There are several types of meta tags you should set up for your page to make it SEO friendly.

The one of the most important meta tag is Title,  usually it is placed at the beginning of site code and search engine will show its text as a direct link to your website. It is essential to remember that this tag is most important tag for your website since it will show the user the content of your page. It looks like that <title>IT Catalogue-the open directory of IT companies</title> You should remember that the number of characters in this tag should be no more then 60, and it should consist of your key words, but not repeating one word. Text should be user-friendly, since it is created not only for search bot, but also for the user and on this content depends if the user will visit your site or not. It will be great if you create original tag title for each page of your website, this will provide the full view of your site content and help user navigation. Never use upper case at the all letters in your title, the user don't like it.