I run a Movable Type blog. I have used meta description and meta keywords at times and at other times not. It appears that with a blog, these do not matter much and in fact, can hurt you as an article may be a little off of what the meta description and keywords are. I understand that these are needed on a traditional website. I don't think that they matter to Google search, but I am less certain on the other engines. What opinions do you have?
Are you able to set individual Meta Descriptions for each blog post? If so I still think you should do that. Otherwise you're letting the search engines decide what text on the page to use as your description. Meta Keywords...I think they're pretty much worthless anyway, so I don't worry about them too much.
hey! why do you think Meta Keywords doesn't work? im working in a website an i give so much enphasis to the Meta Keywords. Can you help me understand that?
We spammed the heck out of them back in 2001, and now any decent search engine won't be fooled by your manipulative Meta Keyword ways.
Every little but helps. I know there are plugins and workarounds to insert meta tags to wordpress blog posts. Try finding something similar for your movable type blog.
I think Google still has little consideration with the use of Metas while some SEs like YAhoo and MSN still values them. If I were you, I wouldn't worry much about them..just focus on your title and headers..