Google likes Meta Tags

I think still google likes Meta Tags. Still google of some countries is using meta information from sites to rank.
So adding Meta description and meta keywords are required or not.
Do they have still any affect on rankings....

 

Without the description tag you'll probably wind up with more supplemental results and wouldn't rank at all.

 

It does help.. but in tight competition I think IBL is the real key.

 

The tags still count. The title and description tag actually count quite a bit. The keywords tag is what counts little, but it's an awesome place to stick keyword misspellings.

 

i agree that google likes them, but doesnt hold them as high a priority, i see search engines as common sense, they analyze your site see how easy it is to navigate it, they then check other sites see if they are relevant to you, then they look at the keywords linked from there site and the title tag and description on there site and adjust your ranking, content is king, title tags, your url and the age of the link, and the other stuff above is all i see as good, dont worry about the 100 or so factors.

these are my meta tags:

<meta name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">

<meta name="Author" content="DIY Conservatories">

<meta name="title" lang="en" content="DIY Conservatories" />

<meta name="description" content="DIY Conservatories: Top Quality Diy conservatory with Rehau Windows,
Save Thousands with Diy Conservatories PShaped TShaped Victorian Conservatory." />

<meta name="keywords" content="DIY Conservatories,Conservatory,Conservatories,Window,Windows,
High Quality,DIY Conservatories And Windows,UK Conservatories,Victorian,Pshaped,Tshaped,Edwardian,Sun Lounge,
Permission,Planning,Builders" />

<meta name="DC.subject.keyword" lang="en" content="DIY Conservatories,Conservatory,Conservatories,Window,Windows,
High Quality,DIY Conservatories And Windows,UK Conservatories,Victorian,Pshaped,Tshaped,Edwardian,Sun Lounge,
Permission,Planning,Builders" />

<meta name="DC.publisher" lang="en" content="Digital View Multimedia Studio" />

<meta name="DC.creator" lang="en" content="Diy Conservatories" />

<meta name="eGMS.subject.category" scheme="GCL" lang="en" content="Conservatories" />

<meta name="DC.audience" scheme="e-GMSAES" lang="en" content="Businesses" />

<meta name="DC.language" scheme="ISO 639-2/T" lang="en" content="eng" />

<meta name="DC.Subject" scheme="BL.GOV VOCAB" lang="en" content="Diy Conservatories" />

<meta name="DC.rights.copyright" lang="en" content="DIY Conservatories" />

<meta name="DC.description" scheme="W3CDTF" lang="en" content="DIY Conservatories: Top Quality Diy conservatory with Rehau Windows,
Save Thousands with Diy Conservatories PShaped TShaped Vicotrian Conservatory." />

 

oh by the way if you search for diy conservatories on google im number 10 at the moment, with only one google backlink i must be doing something right with the content

 

Google gives only a little attention on meta tags for some reason. but it still helps. after all, its one of the on-page factors of SEO.

 

Have a read on this

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html

 

Meta tags are still useful, do not omit this on your page.

 

u guys have build up really nice meta tags....

 

What is this IBL
Please explain a bit more about it.

 

InBound Link - a link pointing TO YOUR SITE

Here is a list of SEO Acronyms - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=256787

 

BL = Backlink
CSE = Comparison Shopping Engine or Custom Search Engine (Google)
CSS = Cascading Style Sheet
DC = Data Center
DMOZ = Directory - Mozilla
HTML = HyperText Markup Language
IBL = Inbound Link
IPB9 = Internet Business Promoter
IR = Indexing and Retrieval
LSA = Latent semantic analysis
LSI = Latent Semantic Indexing
OBL = Outbound Link
ODP = Open Direcrory Project, See DMOZ
OWBL = One way back link
PaIR = Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval
PR = PageRank
RI = Regular index
RSS = RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication
SE = Search Engine
SEM = Search Engine Marketing
SEO = Search Engine Optimization (Optimisation)
SERP = Search Engine Results Page
SI = Supplemental Index
SSE = Yahoo! Search Submit Express
SSP = Yahoo! Search Submit Pro
SWL = SiteWide Link
TBPR = Toolbar PageRank
TR = Trust Rank
VIPS = Visual-block Page Segmentation
WP/WP4 = Web Position/Web Position 4
XML = Extensible Markup Language


Thanks for this Info

 

On rankings, no. The keywords tag is ignored. The description tag helps because in some searches it will show up as the snippet or description below your listing. There is no evidence that the description tag has any effect on Googe rankings, however.

Not true.

The title tag, yes. The description tag? See my comments above.

 

Do guys who build there own conservatories have access to a pc

 

How do you know if your results are supplemental? And as far as that goes, what is 'supplemental results' actuallY?

This has always confused me.

 

A good meta description can increase the chance that a searcher will click on your site in the SERPs.

 

Personally I think description is essential and keywords is useless.

Google is very good at parsing webpages for keywords but really wants a coherent chunk of text premade by you for the search listings.

 

Though it may increase visitors.Can it effect ranking of the website.

 

For Google, there is no evidence that it affects rankings.