are meta tags significant?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by davidcarlson, Dec 5, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi everyone

    I've read on some websites that meta tags are becoming less significant in page rank. Is this true? I still use the description meta tag but is the keyword tag necessary? Are there other meta tags I don't know about that are good for SEO?

    thanks
     
    davidcarlson, Dec 5, 2008 IP
  2. Nixies

    Nixies Peon

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    #2
    As long as you have a good title ag you should be okay. Keywords and description have very little impact on the rankings these days.

    Apart from have a unqiue description tags does help you get more pages indexed in the search engines, bizarrely.
     
    Nixies, Dec 6, 2008 IP
  3. johnnie

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    #3
    Meta description IS important; if you write a nice and catchy meta description, you will see higher CTR in the SERPS.
     
    johnnie, Dec 8, 2008 IP
  4. ichunez

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    #4
    Only for description...
     
    ichunez, Dec 8, 2008 IP
  5. Animal SEO

    Animal SEO Peon

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    #5
    Yes title and description are the most important, you still might aswell include meta tags though there is no harm in doing that.
     
    Animal SEO, Dec 10, 2008 IP
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    Meta tags are important because I think it is still useful for certain search engines.
     
    kingofsanda, Dec 13, 2008 IP
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    #7
    Meta tag is becoming less important for getting a good ranking. But it is still important to get a high CTR in SERP.
    Any way, it does not take you long to set it. So, just do it.
     
    iswandy, Dec 14, 2008 IP
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    #8
    meta description tags are important as they are the snippets of text consisting of ur keywords that appear in the result pages of search engine pages.if u don't use one then the text from ur web page will be displayed or else the description u may have entered in DMOZ directory.
     
    ajshah.shah, Dec 15, 2008 IP
  9. Zerosleep

    Zerosleep Established User

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    #9
    exactly my thoughts
     
    Zerosleep, Dec 15, 2008 IP
  10. mahendra rajeshirke

    mahendra rajeshirke Active Member

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    yes meta tags are made for serp not get influenced to ranking of page. page rank depend on backlinks only.
     
    mahendra rajeshirke, Dec 15, 2008 IP
  11. tangletail

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    #11
    Join forums post alot add your site to your signature heck write it on the back of gorge w bushes head, do what you need to do to get your site know thats what i'm doing. im trying to earn my signature right now but can't figure out how
     
    tangletail, Dec 18, 2008 IP
  12. JoX23

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    #12
    I say they are important. Not necessarily as much as years past, but they are just one piece of the SEO Puzzle. Also, based on what you see in Google's Webmaster accounts they do pay attention to your meta tags and give you warnings when you are using duplicate meta data. Since they take the time to post warnings about this I would think they at least consider it semi important.
     
    JoX23, Dec 18, 2008 IP
  13. crivion

    crivion Notable Member

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    #13
    who says it's not usefull to have meta tags he doesn't know what he is speaking about : I tested one of my websites, 1 week without meta tags and 1 week with meta tags - result positive for the meta tags version, so I am saying it's important by experience
     
    crivion, Dec 19, 2008 IP