I have been reading through the SEO help posts. And I feel like there is mixed messages as far as using META tags. Some say they were a mid 90's tool, and some say they are still important. My question is that I have a Blogspot blog (see my signature), and is there a need for me learn about META tags and use them? Anything will help. Thanks.
There are 2 meta tags that are very useful to search engines... Description Meta Element Robot Meta Element The description meta element is the description search engines usually use when your site is displayed in search results, and is far superior than the snippets they'll usually create. The robot meta element is used to tell search engines if they should or shouldn't not crawl, index and following links on a web page.