Hello Ryan,
In the <head> element, directly below the TITLE, is where the META element goes.
Here's an example:
HTML Code:
<head>
<title>Title of Web Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Keyword 1, Keyword 2, Keyword 3" />
<meta name="description" content="Describe what the Web page is about" />
Note that the forward slashes are present. This is required in XHTML. In HTML, remove them and the space before the closing bracket of the META tag.