Meta Tags Importance

[alphaomega]

Amazing how many conflickting oppinions one can read here. I am incline to go with the veterans of this forum. Meta tags are of limited use.

[celine33]

I strongly believe that keyword tag is also vital to be properly placed in the meta tag since robots will crawl the site also based on the relevance of the site to the keyword being searched in SE. It will also add point to increase site's rankings in SE.just my two cents

[vlem79]

I used to have words in my title, keywords and description tags that were no longer relevant to the new content of my website. Still, I was finding my site easily by using these words. I ended up changing them to be more specific about the new content of my site. It just proved to me that the title, description and keywords were definately used by the SEs.

[steveschmidt85]

i am using title description and keywords only. title is most important, description is somewhat as its fine if you are not adding it will show from content but you can add your important keywords and keywords google is not considering but other search engine consider so its better to add other than that i dont think necessary

[deepsand]

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

Well, then, you're missing out big time.

<meta description> is but one of at least nine different sources used by Google when it dynamically generates the descriptive snippet based on the user's query string. I.e., whether or not your description is actually used is not under your control!

[deepsand]

Ya, focus only important meta tags!

Define "important."

Explain why such are "important."

Explain why others should be ignored.

[SuperMan]

TITLE is the most important in terms of SEO ( and I see this as the number 1 mistake people make - they dont use this to their advantage ) - and then Meta Description and Meta Keywords are second. These are the only ones that I see are important and vital to your SEO efforts... The other ones are garbage and take up resources - Lose them altogether...

[deepsand]

TITLE is the most important in terms of SEO ( and I see this as the number 1 mistake people make - they dont use this to their advantage ) - and then Meta Description and Meta Keywords are second. These are the only ones that I see are important and vital to your SEO efforts... The other ones are garbage and take up resources - Lose them altogether...

Setting aside the fact that "Title" is a not a meta tag, have you learned what the various meta tag attributes are for?

To claim that all other attributes are worthless and consume significant resources is a bit over the edge.

It that necessarily the case with, for example, "robots" or "revisit?"

[deepsand]

I ave never listen or read about these meta keyword till now

In that case, perhaps you should begin with a general overview of meta elements.

[Almo99]

Meta Tags are the first & foremost important things to get good rankings. The most important meta tags are Meta title,Meta description & Meta Keywords.

Agreed. I know people like to say that the KEYWORD tag is not important but it is still best practice to use it. There are many search engines out there...why limit yourself? Bing does use the KEYWORDS tag