Redundant Meta Tags are worthless!

[Webnauts]

Google explains why redundant Meta Tags are worthless: http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/metadata.html

[wsmeyer]

A lot of good reading there - good find!

This sounds a bit dated though:

Next we have two name values: keywords, which these days is mostly useless, ironically, and description, which is still somewhat useful.

If you use the NOODP tag, 9 times out of 10 you'll end up with your meta description in the snippet. This may not effect your placement but can drastically effect your click-through rate.

William.

[incrediblehelp]

Just to add to this topic. My recent testing and even Google themselves does verify that you should use UNIQUE description as a key way of not allowing your pages fall into the Supplemental Index. No ore boiler plate descriptions!!

[Webnauts]

Just to add to this topic. My recent testing and even Google themselves does verify that you should use UNIQUE description as a key way of not allowing your pages fall into the Supplemental Index. No ore boiler plate descriptions!!

And unique titles. :)

[incrediblehelp]

And unique titles. :)

Of course, but everyone knows that, lol.

[Webnauts]

And unique titles. :)

Of course, but everyone knows that, lol.

Are you sure? LOL