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Pages have Appropriate Meta Tags. Serious question. Does this have any impact anymore?

• MrHobbes 15y ago
  To answer you question directly, yes. In a nutshell, * The keywords meta tag is no longer used. * The robots meta tag is extremely useful. * The description tag may be used to display along with a page's title. * Neither description nor keywords meta tag have much impact for SEO. Personally, I don't use the keyword meta tag and I may or may not use the description meta tag. Somewhere out there, there is a search engine that still uses keyword tags for something significant, but I doubt that search engine is Bing (which now powers itself and US/Canada Yahoo). References: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-do... http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=79812 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe... http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-search-no-longer-uses-meta-keywords-tag-27303 http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-search-no-longer-uses-meta...
  • MartinCron 15y ago
    Thank you for the informed reply. I appreciate it.
• aw3c2 15y ago
  Yes. Google will (sometimes?) display what you put into <meta name="description" content="here" /> as abstract on the search results page. This makes it very easy to optimise what people see on there instead of making Google guess what to show.