10-27-2003, 01:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Black Knight
Almost all of the top-tier search engines pay little or no attention to meta tags. Meta tags ceased to be a major SEO issue about 4 years ago, and the only meta tag that matters at all is the Description, not because it will aid your ranking, but because it may still be used as the snippet for your listing on Inktomi based search engines, and on second-tier (minor) search engines.
That's it.
Meta tags have no more value in SEO than that really. |
But, don't you think meta tags give a starting point for the SE crawler to understand what to look for in that page?
I am not talking about those people who try to spam SE with a number of keywords / phrases. We treat each page as a potential #1 and defintely pitch each page for a different key word / or key phrase. We try to restrict ourselves using just the key phrase in meta tags. Our experience gave us good results.
But i agree with you with the fact that the minimum weight given to these tags. But still havent decided to do a page without them. |