Meta tags are not important now. But Meta description is used to show site description in the Google listing page. So it can improve conversion rate.
Make sure that U have atleast 6-7 keywords in your meta tags... Google may not consider it, but other search engines still does and besides, even top seos have mentioned this... It is an important step of seo.. Why to actually lose out on something which actually gives no value but is till considered an important factor..
Well even if they dont hold so much of a strong position in the search engines, still I believe you can get your rankings top in the SERPs with the meta tags. Make sure you atleast have 2-3 keywords in the title as well as the description in each of the pages you upload over the net You can even try changing the titles of your homepage regularly to check how often the search engines crawl your site and update it in their system
I believe meta tags are nothing to do with SEO point of view, but as some of them said, it is important in conversion for visitors. A well written description has a capacity to attract visitors to website.
yes, I believe that meta keywords tag is important for our site, especially for the connection through anchor text with this keywords from other links....I mean maybe inmportant for SERP of our site.
Yes it is necessary from the view point of both search engine and visitors. Not only this but Meta title and Meta Description is also equally important.