Meta Tags Importance

[kumawat]

Hey Everyone when i analysis that there are many meta tags are available and these are important for the sites optimization also.
But i found in many webmaster resources that some meta tags are no useful such that

<META NAME="zip code" content=" ">
<META NAME="city" content=" ">
<META NAME="State" content=" ">
<META NAME="country" content=" ">
<META NAME="Expires" CONTENT="never">
<META NAME="Copyright" CONTENT="© ">
<META NAME="Designer" CONTENT=" ">
<META NAME="Publisher" CONTENT=" ">

But i search in net and found that the meta tags "zip code" is very useful to search a website location and it is very easy to search by any search engines.I want to know
about <META> tags importance also.Although we are use some <Meta> tags <META NAME="Description" CONTENT=" "> , <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT=" "> , <META NAME="Revisit-After" CONTENT="21 Days"> , <META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="all">
etc.

Some search results says that zip code,city,State,country,Expires,Copyright,Designer etc are use less???

[MrPolarZero]

hmm...i never use those meta tags actually. I just focus on the most important ones. And that would be the META title, META keywords, and META description.

[Caitlyn]

there are more than 150 Meta tags...
But most of the search engine is crawling this MEta Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords.
We should use this above three for the search engine result. other than that if you need you can add or dont want to add..

This is my opinion

[mjtaylor]

there are more than 150 Meta tags...
But most of the search engine is crawling this MEta Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords.
We should use this above three for the search engine result. other than that if you need you can add or dont want to add..

This is my opinion

Opinions are worth what you pay for them, but it would be nice to see them backed up by some facts.

For the record: the title tag is an important for SEO. The description is not important for ranking, but it is critical in attracting a click. The keyword tag is not used by any major search engine.

As far as zipcode and location go, I recently became a fan of using microformats. See: http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster...t-Would-You-Do for why.

None of the other meta tags have any SEO value.

[Amit Shrivastava]

A Meta tag is basically an HTML tag, whose job is to furnish data to search engines (SE) regarding the kind of information present on the webpage. The purpose of a Meta tag is to add information and steer the SE spiders. Meta tags are an important tool to search engine optimize (SEO) a website.

[williamc]

Meta tags are an important tool to search engine optimize (SEO) a website.

No, they are not. Please read the thread before posting misleading information.

[jasonwdexter]

I could scream in the face of people that are learning SEO techniques from around 2005 and use http://pr10.com/ as a valid resource. Next they'll be providing tools to measure keyword density and giving me dates when google will next index my website.

The only meta tag I use, is the description tag. I use this as a way of standing out from the SERP crowd

[williamc]

Meta Tags are the first & foremost important things to get good rankings.

They are not even ranking factors. Did not even read the thread at all did you?

[alphaomega]

they are so important for site,as water is important for fish...

You should read the the discussion on image optimization. Your images on your Online Desi Movies are all squashed.

[LloydBurrell]

I believe that some of these meta tags may prove useful in local marketing strategies. However, they should come after meta titles and meta descriptions. It really depends on the online strategy you choose to further develop.